COREMAP - Graphical User Interface for displaying reactor core data in an interactive hexagonal map

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:459232

Muscat, F L; Derstine, K L ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)

COREMAP displays reactor core data from multidimensional neutronic simulation models in color and/or as text in an interactive 2D planar grid of hexagonal subassemblies. The interactive (point and click) interface enables the user to access multi data set files (e.g.. planes, moments, energy groups, ...) and to display up to two data sets simultaneously, one as text and the other as color. The user (1) controls color scale characteristics (linear or logarithmic) with a variety of range limits, (2) chooses zoom features (map size, ring number and surrounding subassemblies), (3) is supplied with popup sub-windows to display data from planes and energy groups currently offscreen for the selected cell. Three color scale shading techniques may be used to display data on any bitmapped screen monitor. Most effective displays are obtained with shades of blue and red on color monitors, shades of grey on greyscale monitors or stipple patterns on monochrome monitors. A fully automated printing option creates high quality PostScript color or greyscale images of the core map independent of the monitor used, e.g. color prints can be generated with a session from a monochrome monitor.

• OSTI ID: 459232
• Report Number(s): CONF-950420--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
C CODES
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
INTERACTIVE DISPLAY DEVICES
REACTOR CORES