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Langley, Brandon

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DOE OSTI2024

MOOSE–Workbench Integration and MOOSE Meshing Capability Enhancements to Facilitate Inputs and Outputs for Multiphysics Modeling

The Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) is an open-source framework that supports many of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) technical areas (TA). These TAs develop and use NEAMS physics and coupling modules in multiple ways to enable the research and development of complex physics models. In addition to the MOOSE framework, the NEAMS Workbench user interface provides a common analysis environment with user-interaction accelerators that streamline the tasks of model creation, review, execution, and output inspection. In FY 2024, objectives were realized in the MOOSE framework application development support and user-oriented improvements. Application development improvements support both developers and users with an expanded Reactor Module and Mesh System, stateful material property support for mortar contact, and customizable convergence criteria. Additionally, new user-oriented features were implemented in the MOOSE framework language server, including autocompletion snippets, definition from source and find reference navigations, and syntax overrides. Lastly, improvements were made to the input interpreter necessary to support the MOOSE language server and the NEAMS Workbench so that they can interact with syntactically incomplete user inputs. These improvements and more were intended to address stakeholder feedback and improve developer and user ability to conduct advanced nuclear energy modeling and simulation in support of DOE and industry needs.

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DOE OSTI2024

3.0 - MOOSE: Enabling massively parallel multiphysics simulations

The development of MOOSE has kept accelerating since the last release, with over 2,100 pull requests merged over the last 30 months that involved nearly fifty contributors across close to a dozen institutions internationally. The growth in MOOSE's capabilities and downstream applications is reflected in the growth of the community. User support provided on the GitHub discussions forum has steadily increased to nearly 50 daily interactions. New simulation projects, notably to model advanced nuclear reactor and fusion devices, are driving a significant expansion of the capabilities. This paper reports on these developments, with several major released features, new physics modules, and key improvements to the user experience and simulation workflow.

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS↗
DOE OSTI2022

User-oriented Improvements in the MOOSE Framework in Support of Multiphysics Simulation

The Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) framework is a foundational capability used by the Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program to create over 15 different simulation tools for advanced nuclear reactors. Due to this ubiquity, improvements to the framework in support of modeling and simulation goals are critical to the program. These improvements can take many forms, including optimization, improved user experience, streamlined application programming interfaces (APIs), parallelism, and new capabilities. The work transcribed in this report was conducted in direct support of the simulation tools and has already been deployed or will be deployed in the coming months. The capabilities were implemented in the same order as they are covered in this report: chainable execution objects or executors, support for transfers between same-level applications in a coupling scheme, support for boundary/subdomain restricted transfers, support for transfers between applications with different coordinate or unit systems, support for MOOSE applications in the NEAMS Workbench, deployment of the MOOSE application of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) high-performance computing (HPC) OnDemand platform, the addition of a triangular meshing library in libMesh, and increased support of face variables.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING↗
DOE OSTI2022

User-Oriented Improvements in the MOOSE framework in support of Multiphysics Simulation

The MOOSE Framework is a foundational capability used by NEAMS to create over 15 different simulation tools for advanced nuclear reactors. Due to this ubiquity, improvements to the framework in support of modeling and simulation goals are critical to the program. These improvements can take many forms including optimization, improved user experience, streamlined APIs, parallelism, and new capability. The work transcribed in the report was in direct support of the simulation tools and is already deployed or will be deployed in the coming months. The capabilities implemented were, in the same order as this report, chainable execution objects or executors, support for transfers between applications at the same level in a coupling scheme, support for boundary/subdomain restricted transfers, support for transfers between applications with different coordinate or unit systems, support for MOOSE applications in the NEAMS workbench, deployment of MOOSE application of the INL HPC OnDemand platform, addition of a triangular meshing library in libMesh and increased support of face variables.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING↗