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Item: Lessons from Nuclear Energy: Building Snow and Avalanche Simulation Tools using a Common Open-Source Framework

• • Title: Lessons from Nuclear Energy: Building Snow and Avalanche Simulation Tools using a Common Open-Source Framework

    Proceedings: International Snow Science Workshop 2016 Proceedings, Breckenridge, CO, USA

    Authors:

    • Andrew E. Slaughter  [ Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA ]
    • Derek R. Gaston  [ Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA ]
    • Cody J. Permann  [ Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA ]
    • John W. Peterson  [ Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA ]
    • David AndrÅ¡  [ Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA ]
    • Jason M. Miller  [ Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA ]
    • Brain K. Alger  [ Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA ]
    • Richard C. Martineau  [ Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA ]

    Date: 2016-10-02

    Abstract: The Department of Energy (DOE) is currently investing millions of dollars annually into various modeling and simulation tools for all aspects of nuclear energy. An important part of this effort includes developing applications based on the open-source Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE; mooseframework.org) from Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Thanks to the efforts of the DOE and outside collaborators, MOOSE currently contains a large set of physics modules, including phase field, level set, heat conduction, tensor mechanics, Navier-Stokes, fracture (extended finite-element method), and porous media, among others. The phase field module, in particular, is well suited for micro-structure evolution simulations, including solidification. The phase field module was also used, in conjunction with the heat conduction module, to build a multiscale snow modeling application (Pika) which was presented at the 2014 International Snow Science Workshop. The development of MOOSE and its modules is ongoing, and will eventually include ray-tracing and shallow water equation applications, two tools which are of particular interest to the snow research community, in the near future. The snow science community can learn from the nuclear industry and harness the enormous effort underway to build simulation tools that are open, modular, and share a common framework. In particular, MOOSE-based multiphysics solvers are inherently parallel, dimension agnostic, adaptive in time and space, fully coupled, and capable of interacting with other applications. The snow science community should build on existing tools to enable collaboration between researchers and practitioners throughout the world and advance the state-of-theart in line with other scientific research efforts.

    Object ID: ISSW16_P1.44.pdf

    Language of Article: English

    Presenter(s):

    Keywords: modeling, open-source, simulation

    Page Number(s): 700-704

    Subjects: snow simulation snow models Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE)

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