Axial burnup distribution

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Hi all,

I am solving a depletion model in which I have divided the Fuel Region (see figure) into 8 fuel zones, and want to extract the axial burnup distribution (z-direction) from the results. Please, could someone provide an example or thoughts on how to get that axial burnup distribution?

Many thanks,
Javier

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Hi @Javier_Gonzalez ;

this is a very interesting and inspiring idea to study spatial evolution of fuel within time-evolution.
I’m not sure if that could help, but the first idea that came to me is the following:
When you load the statepoint file for each simulation, it is possible to get the time-evolution of a given material with specific id, and if you fill the 8 cells with the same fuel but defined separately with ids = 1, 2, 3, …8, it will be possible to get time-evolution for each cell (atom, reaction rates, …). Converting all the outputs into pandas dataframe that will allow you to plot for each time-step the axial evolution of the same fuel.

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Hi @bentridisalah,

I agree with your idea, but the issue is that I wish to know the burnup in each cell and am not sure if there is an option to extract it from the statepoints.

Thanks for your reply,
Javier

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Hello @Javier_Gonzalez ,

indeed, as I know there is no direct way to get depletion information from cells, but from materials, using the material “id”, that why if you relate your cells with specific material (even it is the same composition but not the same location (cell)), using “get_results” function to extract you data from statepoint file, you need to provide the id of the material, hence the container cell of the given material. But probably it will be very tedious if you need to apply on a large number of cells.

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Thanks @bentridisalah for those ideas!

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