Illinois Rocstar has been awarded a new contract entitled, “GUI Development and Workflow Management for CFD/SAS Coupling.” The goal of this project is to develop innovative software tools and numerical methods to support the US Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) efforts towards improved simulation of sodium cooled fast reactors (SFRs).
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Nuclear reactors, whether Light Water Reactors (LWRs) or liquid metal cooled fast reactors, are complex machines requiring detailed design in complex multiphysics scenarios. Modeling and simulation (M&S) are key elements in the design and advanced safety modeling of nuclear reactors. In this project, Illinois Rocstar plans to extend our NEMoSys meshing package to support autonomous adaptive mesh refinement and solution verification to better serve the needs of the nuclear energy M&S community.
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This year marks the tenth anniversary of Illinois Rocstar LLC. In June of 2007, five researchers working together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) decided to form a company to give new life to the UIUC Rocstar Simulation Suite (Rocstar). Rocstar was developed under DOE funding over 10 years at CSAR. Illinois Rocstar LLC, the product of that decision, has gone on not only to upgrade the original Rocstar into the current open-source Rocstar Multiphysics toolset, but to perform work in many other areas of Computational Science and Engineering.
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Illinois Rocstar is excited to announce a partnership with Sandia National Laboratories on a new SBIR contract entitled, “PIV-Validated RANS Turbulence Modeling for Buoyant Supercritical CO2 Flows.” The goal of this project is to develop a cost-effective turbulence model specifically designed for supercritical CO2 flows in direct-fired Brayton cycles.
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“The ChemistryHUB.org: Web-enabled Multiscale Materials and Chemistry Hub,” is a new, DOE-funded, Phase I SBIR project to extend ChemistryHUB.org‘s capabilities to include a new multiscale software capabilities.
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The Illinois Rocstar development team was awarded a new DOE Phase I SBIR entitled, “CAD-Integrated Direct-to-HPC Simulation for Design and Optimization.” RocCAD project’s goal is to harden the Rocstar Multiphysics Simulation Suite code, integrate Computer-Aided Design (CAD) capabilities, and to distribute it under an open-source license that will allow unrestricted commercial use.
Illinois Rocstar is excited to announce a new Nuclear Energy Modeling System (NEMoSys) Phase I SBIR project to create a modular, open-source modeling and simulation (M&S) grid data transfer resource. The envisioned NEMoSys product will be a modular, extensible resource designed to be used in both typical application development systems as well as distributed web-services environments.
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The team at Illinois Rocstar is happy to announce phase II SBIR funding by the US Department of Energy for a new initiative in Computational Chemistry, chemistryhub.org. In this project,…
Illinois Rocstar has begun a new DOE Phase I SBIR entitled, “The Chemlab Chemistry and Materials Science Lifecycle Data Repository.” The Chemlab project is designed to provide a place for scientists and engineers not only to archive and document their simulation datasets, including provenance information and, at times, output data (or detailed information about the generation of the output data) but to present a location to find datasets again later.
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