Advanced Multi-Physics Modelling and Simulation for Nuclear Technology
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B4: Nuclear Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 November 2024 | Viewed by 30
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nuclear energy; nuclear technology; safety design; long-term operation; ageing; fusion/fission plants; external event
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The modelling and simulation (M&S) of nuclear systems, with their complex geometry, coupling of various and different physics and scales, and increased safety and economic requirements, represent one of the key challenges for safer design development and operation in nuclear power plants (NPPs).
The design of a new reactor, whether fission or fusion, requires the development of new and better approaches to properly address the key issues of safe design and its optimization and understanding and enhance material behaviour predictions and understanding. We must also consider the issues that long-term operation and ageing will pose.
Efficient and/or new multiscale/multiphysics modelling and high-performance computing and simulation tools are seen as necessary to predict the complex nuclear system behaviour, accounting for the synergy between mechanical, thermal, chemical, and radioactive conditions during steady-state operation and transients, and gain insights into physical systems in ways that are not possible with traditional approaches alone. Because these tools are flexible and may combine experimental and in-line operational data, they can be applied the to analysis and optimization of the performance and reliability of existing and advanced nuclear power plants.
The proposed Special Issue will provide a platform for the discussion of formalisms, methodologies, and M&S tools related to nuclear reactors and related technologies.
Submissions on the following topics are welcome:
- Multiscale/multiphysics M&S of fission and fusion nuclear systems;
- Design by analysis and safety analysis of NPPs (including SMRs);
- Material ageing and LTO assessments;
- Computational fluid dynamics and applications;
- Deterministic, Monte Carlo, and hybrid methods in reactor physics analyses;
- Uncertainty analysis, validation and verification, and optimization;
- High-performance computing and reduced-order modelling;
- Artificial intelligence applications in nuclear energy;
- Other applications related to the advanced modelling and simulation of nuclear reactors.
Papers that review and implement robust methodologies for assessing SSC fitness for service and identify the most critical elements of the systems that may lesser (or impair) plant safety margins are also welcome.
The Editors encourage submissions of original research articles, short communications, and review articles that cover the above-mentioned topics.
Finally, the proposed Special Issue will also bridge research and educational programs, as well as engineering practices, in all disciplines related to nuclear technology.
Dr. Rosa Lo Frano
Dr. Rodrigue Largenton
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- HPC
- simulation modelling
- high-performance modeling
- artificial intelligence fusion/fission
- plants technology
- multiscale and multiphysics
- ageing
- safety
- design
- validation & verification
Planned Papers
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