NEA-1132 RKFB.

RKFB, Space-Independent Reactor Kinetics with Temperature Feedback

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

[ top ]

1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: RKFB.

[ top ]

2. COMPUTERS

To submit a request, click below on the link of the version you wish to order. Only liaison officers are authorised to submit online requests. Rules for requesters are available here.

Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
RKFB	NEA-1132/01	Tested	06-SEP-1990

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NEA-1132/01	IBM 3084	IBM 3090

[ top ]

3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

RKFB is a space-independent point-kinetics reactor code. It provides a range of reactivity input options, trip control absorbers, and a multiple lumped-parameter temperature feedback model. It is applicable to Materials Testing Reactors of the DIDO class. A reactivity controller option permits simulation of an automatic control system.

[ top ]

4. METHOD OF SOLUTION:

[ top ]

5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM:

[ top ]

6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME:

NEA-1132/01

NEA-DB ran the test cases included in this package on an IBM 3090 computer. Execution times were between 2 and 6 seconds.

[ top ]

7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM:

[ top ]

8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS:

[ top ]

9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-1132/01	06-SEP-1990	Tested at NEADB

[ top ]

10. REFERENCES:

NEA-1132/01, included references:

- F. Lemay and J. Needham:
RKFB - A Reactor Kinetic Code with Feedback.
AERE-R-11865 (November 1985)

[ top ]

11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS:

NEA-1132/01

On IBM 3090, 704K bytes of main storage are required for execution of the test cases.

[ top ]

12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NEA-1132/01	FORTRAN-77

[ top ]

13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED:

NEA-1132/01

MVS/XA (IBM 3090); compiler VS FORTRAN Version 2.

[ top ]

14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

Data
input is in free format. The output includes a comparative graphical display of the results for several different problems which may be solved in a single computer run.

[ top ]

15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

                  F. Lemay
                  Department of Physics
                  University of Birmingham
          and
                  J. Needham
                  Materials Physics and Metallurgy Division
                  Harwell Laboratory
                  United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

[ top ]

16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-1132/01

File name	File description	Records
NEA1132_01.001	Information file	83
NEA1132_01.002	RKFB Source program	1734
NEA1132_01.003	Harwell Fortran subroutines	963
NEA1132_01.004	Harwell Assembler subroutine	70
NEA1132_01.005	JCL to compile, link and go	371
NEA1132_01.006	Sample input for test case 1	41
NEA1132_01.007	Sample input for test case 2	46
NEA1132_01.008	Sample input for test case 3	82
NEA1132_01.009	Sample output for test case 1	506
NEA1132_01.010	Sample output for test case 2	604
NEA1132_01.011	Sample output for test case 3	1082

[ top ]

17. CATEGORIES

E. Space-Independent Kinetics

Keywords: reactor kinetics, space-independent, temperature feedback.