Integration of the Argonne Reactor Computation Codes into the NEAMS Workbench

摘要

The Workbench initiative was launched in 2016 within the NEAMS program to integrate a wide range of tools, from conventional to high-fidelity, in a universal iterfacing platform. The Argonne Reactor Computing suite of codes is continuously being integrated enabling advanced reactor modeling within the NEAMS Workbench. Integrating the ARC codes into the Workbench benefits directly the ARC user community by providing a set of controlled, maintained and validated scripts to generate code's native inputs, which promotes best practices, and facilitates ARC codes utilization. The Workbench improves the user experience with the ARC codes by providing assistance for building an input through auto-completion, real-time validation and input visualization, access to templates, and for postprocessing the output with access to results visualization. The Workbench can also enable communications within the different integrated codes as demonstrated with the use of DAKOTA for driving uncertainty quantification analysis with the ARC codes.