CAD-based Monte Carlo Program for Integrated Simulation of Nuclear System SuperMC

By Yican Wu, Jing Song, Huaqing Zheng, Guangyao Sun, Lijuan Hao, Pengcheng Long, Liqin Hu. International Conference on Supercomputing, 2014

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Monte Carlo (MC) method has distinct advantages to simulate complicated nuclear systems and is envisioned as routine method for nuclear design and analysis in the future. High fidelity simulation with MC method coupled with multi-physical phenomenon simulation has significant impact on safety, economy and sustainability of nuclear systems. However, great challenges to current MC methods and codes prevent its application in real engineering project. SuperMC is a CAD-based Monte Carlo program for integrated simulation of nuclear system developed by FDS Team, China, making use of hybrid MC-deterministic method and advanced computer technologies. The design aim, architecture and main methodology of SuperMC were presented in this paper. SuperMC2.1, the latest version for neutron, photon and coupled neutron and photon transport calculation, has been developed and validated by using a series of benchmarking cases such as the fusion reactor ITER model and the fast reactor BN-600 model. SuperMC is still in its evolution process toward a general and routine tool for nuclear system.

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• Design and R&D Progress of China Lead-Based Reactor for ADS Research Facility (2016, methodology): “The neutronics analysis of the core is performed with the Super Monte Carlo Simulation Program for Nuclear and Radiation Process (SuperMC) [14].”
• Features of Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS) version 3.02 (2018, methodology): “In addition, CAD geometries can be directly converted into the PHITS-readable GG format by using SuperMC [8].”
• Coded-aperture imaging systems: Past, present and future development - A review (2016, methodology): “As creation of complicated geometry models in MCNPX can be troublesome and error-prone, MCAM CAD-based software was used for the design of the aperture and detector plane [79].”