OpenMC-Dash-Interface

STATUS UPDATE: Now capable of running simulations for cells and assemblies

Heroku Demonstration (can't run simulations on Heroku deployment until cross-sections are implemented into environment):

Summary

This project intends to create a GUI for setting up OpenMC simulations, running them, and depicting the results. Dash is pythonic way of coding HTML and JavaScript with callbacks. Right now the project is segmented into several dash apps in the parameters directory. You can now run main.py in the project directory to get a feel for what the application will offer. If you have any support questions, feel free to open an issue.

It is unlikely that I will be able to create support for every feature of OpenMC by myself so the goal right now is to merely get a UI working for those interested in exploring the basics of Nuclear Engineering, then maybe add support where requests are made.

Current Deployment TODO List

• Cross-sections library upload + environment variable https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/s3

Current release TODO List

Geometry:

• Set Max Geometrical Boundaries based on Root Geometry in (%)
  • Getting weird behavior

Mesh:

Cross-Sections:

Tallies & Settings:

Other:

• Clean up with dash multi-output support (esp Store components)

Next Release Features

• Post Processing -> Clean up interface, handle uploaded files, etc

• Hexagonal Lattices

• Full Core Model -> use SELECT FEATURE with underlying scatter

• Finish Settings: https://openmc.readthedocs.io/en/stable/pythonapi/generated/openmc.Settings.html?highlight=openmc.Settings

  • Source Specification (https://openmc.readthedocs.io/en/stable/pythonapi/stats.html):
    • Layout done -> now callbacks
  • Others e.g. temperature mode and cutoff

• Dispersed Knowledge/Guidance, research tooltips

Future Releases

• Burnup and Depletion

Unnecessary Beautification Features

• Expand Lists in Material Table
• Add Density & Melting Point to Periodic Table: https://www.ptable.com/#Property/MeltingPoint
• 3D Rendering of Geometry
• Graph Cell(s)/Assembly(ies) from Memory
• Add Snackbars to Alert User that configs have been accepted into data (easy with multi-output)

Questionable Features

• Removal of items from memory
• File Browser: https://github.com/uptick/react-keyed-file-browser

Contributing

See TODO Lists

Basic concept: The original approach to this interface was to build the model a piece at a time in a corresponding callback. While this may or may not sound intuitive to you, it is the wrong approach because handling objects is difficult in Dash due to storage mechanisms and requirements i.e. a Redis server would allegedly handle object storage but I had no such success. Instead, the option we are left with is, in fact, much more modular in that the interface is nearly completely separate from the model building which happens all in one callback. This single callback references ALL the data that has been put into storage to create the model. As far as OpenMC goes, this is nice because their is no need to much of the functionality that OpenMC provides e.g. removing nuclides or changing geometry, etc. Instead, all of the data is tailored in the interface prior to model creation. You will notice that many of the storage callbacks could be merged but it was much easier to limit the amount of information in each component for debugging purposes.

Happy to take on collaborators.

Email: [email protected]