MOOSE Implementation of MAMBA
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
The development of MAMBA is targeted at capturing both core wide CRUD induced power shifts (CIPS) as well as pin-level CRUD induced localized corrosion (CILC). Both CIPS and CILC require some sort of information from thermal-hydraulic, neutronics, and fuel performance codes, although the degree of coupling is different for the two effects. Since CIPS necessarily requires a core-wide power distribution solve, it requires tight coupling with a neutronics code. Conversely, CIPS tends to be an individual pin phenomenon, requiring tight coupling a fuel performance code. As efforts are now focused on coupling MAMBA within the VERA suite, a natural separation has surfaced in which a FORTRAN rewrite of MAMBA is optimal for VERA integration to capture CIPS behavior, while a CILC focused calculation would benefit from a tight coupling with BISON, motivating a MOOSE version of MAMBA.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1409273
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2017/221
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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