diff --git a/_data/presentations.yml b/_data/presentations.yml index 17d6c7ca..1c1451a4 100644 --- a/_data/presentations.yml +++ b/_data/presentations.yml @@ -1,3 +1,31 @@ +- title: "Burning fuel for cheap! Transport-independent depletion in OpenMC" + presenter: Oleksandr Yardas + event: (SciPy 2025) + type: Technical Presentation + place: Tacoma, WA + month: July + day: 10 + year: 2025 + pic: '/img/pres/2025-scipy.png' + slides: '/pres/2025-yardas-scipy.pdf' + description: "This presentation details a new method for running depletion + simulations independently of neutron transport in OpenMC. + Transport-independent depletion uses pre-computed static multigroup cross + sections and fluxes to calculate reaction rates for OpenMC's depletion + matrix solver. This accelerates the depletion calculation, but removes the + spatial coupling between depletion and neutron transport. Using this + method, concentration errors for low-abundance nuclides at longer (30-day) + time steps exhibit large negative initial concentration the becomes more + positive with time due to overestimation of nuclide production stemming + from the lack of spatial coupling to neutron transport. For ten 3-day time + steps, fission product concentration errors are all under 3\%. Actinide + concentration errors range from 10-15\% for Am and Cm, 5-7\% for Pu and Np, + and 2\% and less for U. Surprisingly, the numbers are similar for 30-day + time steps. These results demonstrate the potential of this new method with + moderate accuracy and extraordinary time savings for low and medium + fidelity simulations. Concentration error characterization on larger models + remains an open area of interest." + - title: "A Hybrid SN-Diffusion Method for Molten Salt Reactor Control Rod Modeling" presenter: Sun Myung Park event: International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025) diff --git a/img/pres/2025-scipy.png b/img/pres/2025-scipy.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e6a793bd Binary files /dev/null and b/img/pres/2025-scipy.png differ diff --git a/pres/2025-yardas-scipy.pdf b/pres/2025-yardas-scipy.pdf new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9ce76660 Binary files /dev/null and b/pres/2025-yardas-scipy.pdf differ