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Neutronic and Thermal-Hydraulic Performance Analysis of Helical Cruciform Fuel Rods

Published in Nuclear Power Engineering, 2023

To analyze the neutronic and thermal-hydraulic performance of helical cruciform fuel (HCF) rods, numerical simulations using the CAD (computer-aided design)-based Reactor Monte Carlo code RMC and the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software Fluent were conducted, and the results were compared with those of traditional cylindrical and untwisted cruciform fuel rods. The results show that the helical cruciform structure slightly reduces the reactivity and increases the radial power peaking factor. Compared with cylindrical fuel rods, the HCF rods can enhance coolant mixing and heat transfer due to their transverse flow characteristics. In the 7-rods assembly calculation, the mean and peak temperatures of HCF rods are reduced by about 4 K.

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Compositional Generative Multiphysics and Multi-component Simulation

Published in arXiv preprint, 2024

Multiphysics simulation, which models the interactions between multiple physical processes, and multi-component simulation of complex structures are critical in fields like nuclear and aerospace engineering. Previous studies often rely on numerical solvers or machine learning-based surrogate models to solve or accelerate these simulations. However, multiphysics simulations typically require integrating multiple specialized solvers-each responsible for evolving a specific physical process-into a coupled program, which introduces significant development challenges. Furthermore, no universal algorithm exists for multi-component simulations, which adds to the complexity. Here we propose compositional Multiphysics and Multi-component Simulation with Diffusion models (MultiSimDiff) to overcome these challenges. During diffusion-based training, MultiSimDiff learns energy functions modeling the conditional probability of one physical process/component conditioned on other processes/components. In inference, MultiSimDiff generates coupled multiphysics solutions and multi-component structures by sampling from the joint probability distribution, achieved by composing the learned energy functions in a structured way. We test our method in three tasks. In the reaction-diffusion and nuclear thermal coupling problems, MultiSimDiff successfully predicts the coupling solution using decoupled data, while the surrogate model fails in the more complex second problem. For the thermal and mechanical analysis of the prismatic fuel element, MultiSimDiff trained for single component prediction accurately predicts a larger structure with 64 components, reducing the relative error by 40.3% compared to the surrogate model.

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Modeling of zirconium alloy cladding corrosion behavior based on neural ordinary differential equation

Published in Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2025

Current zirconium alloy cladding corrosion models are mainly semi-empirical and show significant dispersion when compared to measured data. This study introduces neural ordinary differential equation (neural ODE) to model corrosion behavior, utilizing data-model fusion approach for network training. Initially, a semi-empirical model for zirconium alloy cladding corrosion is established through differential evolution algorithm, generating a large dataset for pre-training the neural network. The network is then fine-tuned using measured data. These methods effectively address the challenges of sparse cladding corrosion data and data available only at fixed time points, resulting in a more accurate model. The results show that the differential evolution algorithm can identify a set of appropriate parameters for the semi-empirical model, achieving a standard deviation of 0.040. The neural ODE model demonstrates even higher accuracy, reducing the standard deviation to 0.031 and improving accuracy by approximately 25%. Additionally, the model demonstrates excellent generalization capacity on other time points and new power histories.

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MooseAgent: A LLM Based Multi-agent Framework for Automating Moose Simulation

Published in arXiv preprint, 2025

The Finite Element Method (FEM) is widely used in engineering and scientific computing, but its pre-processing, solver configuration, and post-processing stages are often time-consuming and require specialized knowledge. This paper proposes an automated solution framework, MooseAgent, for the multi-physics simulation framework MOOSE, which combines large-scale pre-trained language models (LLMs) with a multi-agent system. The framework uses LLMs to understand user-described simulation requirements in natural language and employs task decomposition and multi-round iterative verification strategies to automatically generate MOOSE input files. To improve accuracy and reduce model hallucinations, the system builds and utilizes a vector database containing annotated MOOSE input cards and function documentation. We conducted experimental evaluations on several typical cases, including heat transfer, mechanics, phase field, and multi-physics coupling. The results show that MooseAgent can automate the MOOSE simulation process to a certain extent, especially demonstrating a high success rate when dealing with relatively simple single-physics problems. The main contribution of this research is the proposal of a multi-agent automated framework for MOOSE, which validates its potential in simplifying finite element simulation processes and lowering the user barrier, providing new ideas for the development of intelligent finite element simulation software.

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Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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