openmc.deplete.openmc_operator.OpenMCOperator

class openmc.deplete.openmc_operator.OpenMCOperator(materials=None, cross_sections=None, chain_file=None, prev_results=None, diff_burnable_mats=False, diff_volume_method='divide equally', fission_q=None, helper_kwargs=None, reduce_chain=False, reduce_chain_level=None)[source]

Abstract class holding OpenMC-specific functions for running depletion calculations.

Specific classes for running transport-coupled or transport-independent depletion calculations are implemented as subclasses of OpenMCOperator.

Parameters
  • materials (openmc.Materials) – List of all materials in the model

  • cross_sections (str or list of MicroXS) – Path to continuous energy cross section library, or list of objects containing cross sections.

  • chain_file (str, optional) – Path to the depletion chain XML file. Defaults to openmc.config[‘chain_file’].

  • prev_results (Results, optional) – Results from a previous depletion calculation. If this argument is specified, the depletion calculation will start from the latest state in the previous results.

  • diff_burnable_mats (bool, optional) – Whether to differentiate burnable materials with multiple instances.

  • fission_q (dict, optional) – Dictionary of nuclides and their fission Q values [eV].

  • helper_kwargs (dict) – Keyword arguments for helper classes

  • reduce_chain (bool, optional) – If True, use openmc.deplete.Chain.reduce() to reduce the depletion chain up to reduce_chain_level.

  • reduce_chain_level (int, optional) – Depth of the search when reducing the depletion chain. Only used if reduce_chain evaluates to true. The default value of None implies no limit on the depth.

  • diff_volume_method (str) –

    Specifies how the volumes of the new materials should be found. Default is to ‘divide equally’ which divides the original material volume equally between the new materials, ‘match cell’ sets the volume of the material to volume of the cell they fill.

    New in version 0.14.0.

Variables
  • materials (openmc.Materials) – All materials present in the model

  • cross_sections (str or list of MicroXS) – Path to continuous energy cross section library, or list of objects containing cross sections.

  • output_dir (pathlib.Path) – Path to output directory to save results.

  • round_number (bool) – Whether or not to round output to OpenMC to 8 digits. Useful in testing, as OpenMC is incredibly sensitive to exact values.

  • number (openmc.deplete.AtomNumber) – Total number of atoms in simulation.

  • nuclides_with_data (set of str) – A set listing all unique nuclides available from cross_sections.xml.

  • chain (openmc.deplete.Chain) – The depletion chain information necessary to form matrices and tallies.

  • reaction_rates (openmc.deplete.ReactionRates) – Reaction rates from the last operator step.

  • burnable_mats (list of str) – All burnable material IDs

  • heavy_metal (float) – Initial heavy metal inventory [g]

  • local_mats (list of str) – All burnable material IDs being managed by a single process

  • prev_res (Results or None) – Results from a previous depletion calculation. None if no results are to be used.

get_results_info()[source]

Returns volume list, material lists, and nuc lists.

Returns

  • volume (dict of str float) – Volumes corresponding to materials in full_burn_dict

  • nuc_list (list of str) – A list of all nuclide names. Used for sorting the simulation.

  • burn_list (list of int) – A list of all material IDs to be burned. Used for sorting the simulation.

  • full_burn_list (list) – List of all burnable material IDs

initial_condition(materials)[source]

Performs final setup and returns initial condition.

Parameters

materials (list of openmc.lib.Material) – list of materials

Returns

Total density for initial conditions.

Return type

list of numpy.ndarray

write_bos_data(step)[source]

Document beginning of step data for a given step

Called at the beginning of a depletion step and at the final point in the simulation.

Parameters

step (int) – Current depletion step including restarts