With the decreased cost and increased capabilities of computers, Nuclear Engineering has implemented computer software (Computer code to Mathematical model) into all facets of this field. There are a wide variety of fields associated with nuclear engineering, but computers and associated software are used most often in design and analysis. Neutron kinetics, thermal-hydraulics, and structural mechanics are all important in this effort. Each software needs to be tested and verified before use. The codes can be separated by use and function. Most of the software are written in C and Fortran.

Monte Carlo Radiation Transport

• COG (LLNL)

• Geant4 (CERN)

• McCARD (KAIST)

• MCNP (LANL)

• MCU (MCU) (Kurchatov Institute)

• OpenMC

• PHITS (JAEA)

• SCALE (KENO V and KENO VI) (ORNL)

• Serpent (VTT)

• TRIPOLI-4 (CEA)

Transmutation, fuel depletion

• ACAB code Activation and transmutation calculations for nuclear applications

• ORIP_XXI code Isotope transmutation simulations

• ORILL Code 1D transmutation, fuel depletion (burn-up) and radiological protection code

• FISPACT-II Multiphysics, inventory and source-term code

• MURE Serpent-MCNP utility for Reactor Evolution

• VESTA Monte Carlo depletion interface code

Reactor Systems Analysis

Particle Accelerators and High Voltage Machines

Magnetic Fusion Research

Toolkit

• PyNE The Nuclear Engineering Toolkit

Nuclear Fuel Cycle

• Cyclus An agent-based framework for modeling the flow of material through nuclear fuel cycles.

Deterministic Radiation Transport

• CASMO5 (Studsvik)

• HELIOS-2 (Studsvik)

• SCALE (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

• MPACT (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

• THOR

• nTRACER (Seoul National University)

Steady-state Reactor Analysis

• SIMULATE5

Spatial Kinetics

• PARCS

• SIMULATE-3K

• NESTLE

Thermal-Hydraulics

• ATHLET (GRS, Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)

• TRACE (NRC)

• SPACE (KEPCO)

• RELAP5-3D (Idaho National Laboratory)

• GOTHIC (Numerical Advisory Solutions)

• CATHARE (CEA)

• FLICA-4 (CEA)

• RETRAN (RETRAN-02 and RETRAN-3D)

• VIPRE-01

• PROTO-FLO

• PROTO-HX

• PROTO-HVAC

• PROTO-Sprinkler

Computational Fluid Dynamics

• CFX (ANSYS)

• FLUENT (ANSYS)

• StarCD (Siemens)

• STAR-CCM+ (Siemens)

• LOGOS

• COBRA-TF

• GOTHIC

• TransAT

• code_saturne (EDF)

• neptune_cfd (EDF)

• Trio_CFD (CEA)

Severe Accident

• ATHLET-CD (GRS)

• MELCOR (Sandia National Laboratories)

• MAAP (EPRI)

• ASTEC (IRSN and GRS)

Many codes are supported by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). These include SCALE, PARCS, TRACE (Formerly RELAP5 and TRAC-B), MELCOR, and many others.

http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/research/safetycodes.html

See also

• Safety code (nuclear reactor)

• Computational science

• Computational physics

• Computer simulation

• List of computational physics software

• List of plasma physics software

• List of software for nanostructures modeling

References

External links

• http://www.min.uc.edu/nuclear/current_research/sinema-research/codes-of-interest

• https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/research/safetycodes.html

• http://www.oecd-nea.org/tools/abstract/list

• http://www.ne.anl.gov/codes/

• http://www.irsn.fr/EN/Research/Scientific-tools/Computer-codes/Pages/Computer-codes-2624.aspx

• https://www.oecd-nea.org/tools/abstract/list/category/*