The Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA): Design and architecture ☆ ☆Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.

Title

The Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA): Design and architecture ☆ ☆Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.

Authors

Keywords

Nuclear reactor, Modeling, Simulation, Coupled physics, Multiphysics, Core simulator, Neutronics, Fluid flow, Thermal-hydraulics

Journal

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Volume 326, Issue -, Pages 544-568

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Online

2016-09-13

DOI

10.1016/j.jcp.2016.09.003