Abstract
A versatile calculation chain has been under development at VTT and Aalto University, featuring the ASCOT Monte Carlo orbit-following suite of codes, the Serpent Monte Carlo particle transport code and the Apros® thermal-hydraulic system code. This project aims to establish a comprehensive analytical environment that can aid researchers at multiple stages during the maturation of DEMO. Plasma product source term profiles have been generated using the ASCOT code, providing input for subsequent neutron transport calculations with Serpent. These studies utilized the CAD-based geometry of the equatorial breeding unit of the Water-Cooled Lithium-Lead (WCLL) breeding blanket. Efforts towards optimization have been made, investigating leakages and scalability of these external source simulations. Preliminary particle transport results were reported along with the methodology of converting the tallied data into Apros-relevant input.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 113308 |
| Journal | Fusion Engineering and Design |
| Volume | 184 |
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| Publication status | Published - Nov 2022 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Funding
This work was partially funded by the Academy of Finland project No. 324759. The author acknowledges the computational resources provided by the Aalto Science-IT project. This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 EUROfusion).
Keywords
- Apros®
- ASCOT
- DEMO
- Neutronics
- Plasma physics
- Serpent
- Thermal-hydraulics
- WCLL