Publications by Gaëtan Girardin

Development and verification of a methodology for neutron noise response to fuel assembly vibrations

Gaëtan Girardin, Abdelhamid Dokhane, Hakim Ferroukhi, Andreas Pautz, Dionysios Chionis

Nuclear reactors are stochastic systems, in which several parameters fluctuate even during steady-state conditions. In addition, structural components like fuel assemblies, vibrate due to strong hydraulic forces. This stochasticity is the cause of the neut ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Methods and Models for the Coupled Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Analysis of the CROCUS Reactor at EFPL

Gaëtan Girardin, Andreas Pautz, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Adolfo Rais, Mathieu Hursin

In order to analyze the steady state and transient behavior of the CROCUS reactor, several methods and models need to be developed in the areas of reactor physics, thermal-hydraulics, and multiphysics coupling. The long-term objectives of this project are ...

2015

Full Core modeling techniques for research reactors with irregular geometries using Serpent and PARCS applied to the CROCUS reactor

Gaëtan Girardin, Andreas Pautz, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Adolfo Rais, Mathieu Hursin

This paper summarizes the results of modeling methodologies developed for the zero-power (100 W) teaching and research reactor CROCUS located in the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behavior (LRS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in L ...

2015

Verification of a reactor physics calculation scheme for the CROCUS reactor

Gaëtan Girardin, Andreas Pautz, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Adolfo Rais, Mathieu Hursin

CROCUS is a zero power (100 W) reactor of the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behavior (LRS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). It is used for teaching and research purposes. Its modeling has relied so far on diffusio ...

2014

Analysis of the BN-600 fast-spectrum core mock-up at BFS-2 zero-power facility using MCNPX

Gaëtan Girardin, Alessandro Marinoni, Konstantin Mikityuk

A 3D full-core heterogeneous model of the BFS-62-3A critical benchmark experiment was developed and validated using the Monte Carlo MCNPX-2.4.0 code. ...

Elsevier2012

Development of the control assembly pattern and dynamic analysis of the generation IV large gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR)

Gaëtan Girardin

During the past ten years, different independent factors, such as the rapidly increasing worldwide demand in energy, societal concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, and the high and volatile prices for fossil fuels, have contributed to the renewed intere ...

EPFL2009

Development and characterization of the control assembly system for the large 2400 MWth Generation IV gas-cooled fast reactor

Rakesh Chawla, Gaëtan Girardin, Gérald Rimpault, Konstantin Mikityuk

The present paper is related to the design and neutronic characterization of the principal control assembly system for the reference large (2400 MWth) Generation IV gas-cooled fast reactor (GFR), which makes use of ceramic-ceramic (CERCER) plate-type fuel- ...

Elsevier Science Ltd.2008