SCEPTRE 1.7 Quick Start Guide

Technical Report · Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1561462· OSTI ID:1561462

Bohnhoff, William J. ^[1]; Drumm, Clifton R. ^[1]; Fan, Wesley C. ^[1]; Pautz, Shawn D. ^[1]; Valdez, Greg D. ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

This report provides a summary of notes for building and running the Sandia Computational Engine for Particle Transport for Radiation Effects (SCEPTRE) code. SCEPTRE is a general purpose C++ code for solving the Boltzmann transport equation in serial or parallel using unstructured spatial finite elements, multigroup energy treatment, and a variety of angular treatments including discrete ordinates and spherical harmonics. Either the first-order form of the Boltzmann equation or one of the second-order forms may be solved. SCEPTRE requires a small number of open-source Third Party Libraries (TPL) to be available, and example scripts for building these TPL's are provided. The TPL's needed by SCEPTRE are Trilinos, boost, and netcdf. SCEPTRE uses an autoconf build system, and a sample configure script is provided. Running the SCEPTRE code requires that the user provide a spatial finite-elements mesh in Exodus format and a cross section library in a format that will be described. SCEPTRE uses an xml-based input, and several examples will be provided.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Science (NA-113)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1561462
• Report Number(s): SAND-2016-3250; 638072
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English