Richard Martineau

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Argonne Associate at Argonne National Laboratory

Cardinal is an open-source application that couples OpenMC Monte Carlo transport and NekRS computational fluid dynamics to the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE), closing neutronics and thermal-fluid gaps in conducting high-resolution multiscale and multiphysics analyses of nuclear systems. We provide an introduction to Car...

DireWolf is a multiphysics software driver application designed to simulate heat pipe–cooled nuclear microreactors. Developed under the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program, the DireWolf software application’s objective is to provide the nuclear community with a design a...

Sockeye is a heat pipe analysis application based on the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) finite element framework. The primary purpose of Sockeye is to provide a transient heat pipe simulation tool to be used in the analysis of nuclear microreactor designs. Sockeye provides the capability to perform one-dimensional, two-...

The ability to identify features within finite element simulations and track them over time is necessary for understanding and quantifying complex behaviors as disparate as turbulent vortices in a flow field to microstructure evolution. We extend our previous research on feature identification in parallel unstructured meshes with the novel ability...

This paper presents an overview of Pronghorn, a multiscale thermal-hydraulic (T/H) application developed by Idaho National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley. Pronghorn, built on the open-source finite element Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE), leverages state-of-the-art physical models, numerical method...

This paper demonstrates a multiphysics solver for pebble-bed reactors, in particular, for Berkeley’s pebble-bed -fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (PB-FHR) (Mark I design). The FHR is a class of advanced nuclear reactors that combines the robust coated particle fuel form from high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, the direct reactor auxi...

The complex core geometry of Pebble Bed Reactors (PBRs) necessitates multiscale techniques for fast-turnaround design and analysis. This paper describes the multiscale model implemented in the Pronghorn PBR simulation tool and demonstrates application to steady-state analysis of the Mark-1 Pebble Bed Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor (P...

High temperature gas cooled reactors (HTGR) are a candidate for timely Gen-IV reactor technology deployment because of high technology readiness and walk-away safety. Among HTGRs, pebble bed reactors (PBRs) have attractive features such as low excess reactivity and online refueling. Pebble bed reactors pose unique challenges to analysts and reactor...

High temperature gas cooled reactors (HTGR) are a candidate for timely Gen-IV reactor technology deployment because of high technology readiness and walk-away safety. Among HTGRs, pebble bed reactors (PBRs) have attractive features such as low excess reactivity and online refueling. Pebble bed reactors pose unique challenges to analysts and reactor...

Harnessing modern parallel computing resources to achieve complex multiphysics simulations is a daunting task. The Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) aims to enable such development by providing simplified interfaces for specification of partial differential equations, boundary conditions, material properties, and all aspec...

Harnessing modern parallel computing resources to achieve complex multi-physics simulations is a daunting task. The Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) aims to enable such development by providing simplified interfaces for specification of partial differential equations, boundary conditions, material properties, and all aspe...

The complex core geometry of Pebble Bed Reactors (PBRs) necessitates multiscale techniques for accurate prediction of temperature and flow distributions. This paper presents the multiscale Thermal-Hydraulic (T/H) models used in the Pronghorn PBR simulation tool with application to the Mark-1 Pebble Bed Fluoride-Salt Cooled High-Temperature Reactor...

A significant challenge in the core modeling of pebble bed reactors (PBRs) is the complex fuel-coolant structure. At the expense of approximating local flow and heat transfer effects, porous media models can provide medium-fidelity predictions of complicated thermal-fluid systems with significantly less computational cost than high-fidelity Computa...

The multigroup neutron transport equations has been widely used to study the interactions of neutrons with their background materials in nuclear reactors. High-resolution simulations of the multigroup neutron transport equations using modern supercomputers require the development of scalable parallel solving techniques. In this paper, we study a sc...

The multigroup neutron transport equations have been widely used to study the motion of neutrons and their interactions with the background materials. Numerical simulation of the multigroup neutron transport equations is computationally challenging because the equations is defined on a high dimensional phase space (1D in energy, 2D in angle, and 3D...

Large-scale parallel numerical simulations are essential for a wide range of engineering problems that involve complex, coupled physical processes interacting across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. The data structures involved in such simulations (meshes, sparse matrices, etc.) are frequently represented as graphs, and these graphs mu...

This paper presents a Monte Carlo-computational fluid dynamics coupling of OpenMC and Nek5000 within the MOOSE framework. This coupling specifically aims to address and overcome challenges encountered in earlier coupling works such as file-based communication and overly restrictive one-to-one mesh mappings between the codes. In addition, coupling w...

Pebble bed High Temperature Reactors (HTRs) are characterized by many advantageous design features, such as excellent passive heat removal in accidents, large margins to fuel failure, and online refueling potential. However, a significant challenge in the core modeling of pebble bed reactors is the complex fuel-coolant structure. This paper present...

The numerical simulation of thermalhydraulic processes in nuclear power plants requires very accurate and extremely fast algorithms for calculating the thermophysical properties of water and steam. In order to provide such algorithms, the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) has adopted the new "IAPWS Guideline on...

We present the first development and assessment of a stabilized, second-order finite volume (FV) compressible flow solver based on an open-source computational framework, MOOSE (Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment). In this FV solver, a weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) reconstruction scheme based on Hermite polynomials, n...

The conservative-form, pressure-based PCICE numerical method (Martineau and Berry, 2004) (Berry, 2006), recently developed for computing transient fluid flows of all speeds from very low to very high (with strong shocks), is simplified and generalized. Though the method automatically treats a continuous transition of compressibility, three distinct...

Experiments were conducted which model steam condensation front propagation during the Steam Enhanced Extraction (SEE) process of removing liquid contaminants in fractured porous media*. The process is being considered for implementation for removal of contaminants in the basalt flows which lie above the Snake River aquifer at the Idaho National En...