Abstract

PHISICS (Parallel and Highly Innovative Simulation for INL Code System) is a reactor physics package developed at the Idaho National Laboratory. It is composed of several modules: a nodal and semi-structured transport core solver (INSTANT), a depletion module (MRTAU), a time-dependent solver (TimeIntegrator), a cross-section interpolation and manipulation framework (MIXER), a SuperHomogenization scheme (SPH) a criticality search module (CRITICALITY), a fuel management and shuffling component (SHUFFLE) and a coupling API with RELAP5-3D. PHISICS has been built in a highly modular fashion so that different physical models can be activated or deactivated depending on the physics relevant to the particular type of analysis. This approach simplifies development as well as mid- and long-term maintenance of the code. PHISICS is entirely written in FORTRAN 95/2003. Each of its components is fully parallelized and designed to take full advantage of shared-memory computers (multiprocessor desktops and workstations) and middle to large high-performance computing systems (10 to 1000 processors). The aim of this document is to detail the input requirements for PHISICS (and all its modules) focusing on the input structure.

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