Progress of conversion system from CAD data to MCNP geometry data in Japan

Autor: Hiromasa Iida, H. Nashif, H. Morota, Chikara Konno, Satoshi Sato, F. Masuda
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Fusion Engineering and Design. 85:1546-1550
ISSN: 0920-3796
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2010.04.038
Popis: Automatic conversion systems from CAD data to MCNP geometry input data have been developed to convert the CAD data of the fusion reactor with very complicated structure. So far, two conversion systems (GEOMIT-1 and ARCMCP) have been developed and the third system (GEOMIT-2) is under developing. The void data can be created in these systems. GEOMIT-1 was developed in 2007, but a lot of manual shape splitting work for the CAD data was required to convert the complicated geometry. ARCMCP was developed in 2008. The algorithm has been drastically improved on automatic creation of ambiguous surface in ARCMCP, but it still required a little manual shape splitting work. The latest system, GEOMIT-2, does not require additional commercial software packages, though the previous systems require them. It also has functions of the CAD data healing and the automatic shape splitting. Geometrical errors of CAD data can be automatically revised by the healing function, and complicated geometries can be automatically split into simple geometries by the shape splitting function. Any manual works for CAD data are not required in GEOMIT-2. GEOMIT-2 is very useful for nuclear analyses of fusion reactors.
Databáze: OpenAIRE