RAPTOR
Master of the Monte Carlo
No-fuss multi-physics automation
RAPTOR is a framework for designing, analyzing, and optimizing advanced reactors. RAPTOR accelerates design time of nuclear reactors by eliminating the time engineers spend writing complex inputs for physics codes, scraping simulation data, and transferring data between domain-specific physics codes.
Supported physics models:
MCNP
MOOSE
SERPENT
Generalized input deck
YAML input file
RAPTOR provides a single input deck that is automatically translated into simulation inputs for a variety of physics codes without user interaction.
Compare Solvers
Without relearning MC
RAPTOR supports multiple physics solvers and frameworks, allowing engineers to perform code-to-code comparisons with a few keystrokes. The interfaces are developed by domain experts and tested under a wide set of conditions to provide valid and robust inputs.
10X your nuclear engineer
RAPTOR’s multi-physics workflow allows a single engineer to perform coupled iterations between a neutronics code and a thermal-hydraulics code without needing to be a domain expert in both regimes, or manually transferring data to a colleague. These workflows are supported all the way through depletion, enabling detailed understanding of the reactor performance through operational history.
Materials Library
End the guesswork on material properties and compositions. RAPTOR comes with a robust and extensive materials library including isotopic compositions and thermo-physical properties with temperature and pressure dependence.
Optimization & Trades
Don't reinvent the wheel
Why spend computational resources studying non-optimal cases? RAPTOR provides a powerful genetic algorithm optimizer to efficiently find optimal designs.
Analysis API
Powerful and Efficient
All RAPTOR simulations, regardless of solver, produce a binary output file with the same format and API. This streamlines post-processing, reducing the effort required for analysis, visualization, and report generation.
Quality Assurance
RAPTOR is developed, reviewed, tested, and deployed using modern software practices. All change requests must pass an extensive test suite, from low-level unit tests to integration, regression, and validation tests. Traceability is required to comply with rigorous quality assurance standards imposed by the nuclear industry.
1. MCNP™ is a registered trademark of Triad National Security, LLC;
2. MOOSE™ is a trademark of Battelle Energy; Alliance, LLC;
3. SERPENT™ is a trademark of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.