Lucy
Bland

Lucy Bland is a PhD student at the Cambridge Nuclear Energy Centre, working The Random Rays Method (TRRM), which has recently been demonstrated to hold significant promise with regards to computational efficiency of analysing criticality and shielding problems. Some of the unique features of the method are modest memory requirements and fast convergence on quantities of interest within the computational domain regardless of its size and complexity. These features make the method particularly attractive for modelling multi-physics systems.

My project aims to develop a computational approach based on the TRRM solver implemented in Monte Carlo neutron transport code SCONE, by coupling it with multi-physics solvers such as fuel depletion and thermal hydraulics. Significant computational gains are expected from allowing the convergence of temperature and nuclide density fields in-line with the TRRM neutron flux/fission power convergence iterations.