Tutorials

You should have ARMI installed and operational by this point. The following tutorials demonstrate in more detail how to interact with ARMI.

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• 1. The ARMI Nuclide and Element Packages
  • 1.1. Accessing Individual Nuclide Data/Attributes
  • 1.2. Plotting the Chart of the Nuclides
• 2. The ARMI Material Library
• 3. Building input files for a fast reactor
  • 3.1. Setting up the blueprints
  • 3.2. Specifying the core map
  • 3.3. Specifying settings
  • 3.4. Defining fuel management
• 4. Building input files for a thermal reactor
  • 4.1. Setting up the blueprints
  • 4.2. The settings file
  • 4.3. Defining fuel management
  • 4.4. Ok, so now what?
• 5. Hands-on at the ARMI Terminal
  • 5.1. Initializing and Exploring the ARMI Model
  • 5.2. Exploring the state of the reactor
  • 5.3. Modifying the state of the reactor
  • 5.4. Modifying number densities
  • 5.5. Saving state to disk
  • 5.6. Fuel management
  • 5.7. Loading from the database
• 6. Making your first ARMI-based App
  • 6.1. Starting a new app
  • 6.2. Registering the app with ARMI
  • 6.3. Defining the app class
  • 6.4. Defining the physics plugin
  • 6.5. Defining custom settings
  • 6.6. Creating the physics kernels
  • 6.7. Adding entry points
  • 6.8. Running the app and debugging
  • 6.9. Checking the output
  • 6.10. Bonus: Ad-hoc UserPlugins
• 7. Parameter sweeps
  • 7.1. A simple one-dimensional parameter sweep
  • 7.2. Modifying the reactor design
  • 7.3. A full factorial parameter sweep
  • 7.4. Post-processing the results of the sweep
• 8. Pin data, selection, and rotation
  • 8.1. Single pin demonstration
  • 8.2. Rotation
  • 8.3. Component-level powers
  • 8.4. Multi-pin example
  • 8.5. Bringing it all together.