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Shimomura, Koichiro*; Koda, Akihiro*; Pant, A. D.*; Sunagawa, Hikaru*; Fujimori, Hiroshi*; Umegaki, Izumi*; Nakamura, Jumpei*; Fujihara, Masayoshi; Tampo, Motonobu*; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
Interactions (Internet), 245(1), p.31_1 - 31_6, 2024/12
Shimomura, Koichiro*; Koda, Akihiro*; Pant, A. D.*; Natori, Hiroaki*; Fujimori, Hiroshi*; Umegaki, Izumi*; Nakamura, Jumpei*; Tampo, Motonobu*; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; Teshima, Natsuki*; et al.
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 2462, p.012033_1 - 012033_5, 2023/03
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Physics, Applied)Asakura, Kazuki; Shimomura, Yusuke; Donomae, Yasushi; Abe, Kazuyuki; Kitamura, Ryoichi; Miyakoshi, Hiroyuki; Takamatsu, Misao; Sakamoto, Naoki; Isozaki, Ryosuke; Onishi, Takashi; et al.
JAEA-Review 2021-020, 42 Pages, 2021/10
The disposal of radioactive waste from the research facility need to calculate from the radioactivity concentration that based on variously nuclear fuels and materials. In Japan Atomic Energy Agency Oarai Research and Development Institute, the study on considering disposal is being advanced among the facilities which generate radioactive waste as well as the facilities which process radioactive waste. This report summarizes a study result in FY2020 about the evaluation method to determine the radioactivity concentration in radioactive waste on Oarai Research and Development Institute.
Seki, Akiyuki; Mayumi, Akie; Wainwright-Murakami, Haruko*; Saito, Kimiaki; Takemiya, Hiroshi; Idomura, Yasuhiro
Proceedings of Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications + Monte Carlo 2020 (SNA + MC 2020), p.158 - 164, 2020/10
We developed a method to estimate the temporal change of the air dose rate at the location with sparse (in time) measurements by using the continuous measurement data from the nearby monitoring post. This method determines an observation model from the correlation between sparse data at the target location and dense data at the monitoring post based on a hierarchical Bayesian model. The developed method was validated against the air dose rate measured at the monitoring posts in Fukushima prefecture from 2012 to 2017. The results showed that the developed method can predict the air dose rate at almost all target locations with an error rate of less than 10%.
Kawai, Chika*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Ogawa, Yuichi*; Yamada, Hiroshi*
Physics of Plasmas, 27(8), p.082302_1 - 082302_11, 2020/08
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:11.25(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Self-organization in the toroidal electron temperature gradient driven (ETG) turbulence is investigated based on a global gyrokinetic model in a weak magnetic shear configuration. Because of global profile effects, toroidal ETG modes with higher toroidal mode number n are excited at the outer magnetic surfaces, leading to strong linear wave dispersion. The resulting anisotropic wave turbulence boundary and the inverse energy cascade generate the self-organization of zonal flows, which is the unique mechanism in the global gyrokinetic model. The self-organization is confirmed both in the decaying turbulence initialized by random noises and in the toroidal ETG turbulence. It is also shown that the self-organization process generates zonal flows and isotropic eddies depending on a criterion parameter, which is determined by the ion to electron temperature ratio and the turbulence intensity.
Iwamoto, Yosuke; Yoshida, Makoto*; Matsuda, Hiroki; Meigo, Shinichiro; Satoh, Daiki; Yashima, Hiroshi*; Yabuuchi, Atsushi*; Kinomura, Atsushi*; Shima, Tatsushi*
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 28, p.061003_1 - 061003_5, 2020/02
To predict the lifetime of target materials in high-energy radiation environments at spallation neutron sources, radiation transport codes such as PHITS are used to calculate the displacements per atom (DPA) value. In this work, to validate calculated DPA values of tungsten, we implemented 0.25-mm-diameter wire sample of tungsten in a proton irradiation device with a Gifford-McMahon cryocooler and measured the defect-induced electrical resistivity changes related to the displacement cross section using 389-MeV protons at 10 K. In comparison with experimental data under 1.1 and 1.9 GeV proton irradiation, we found that damage rate of tungsten increases with proton energy due to increase the number of secondary particle s produced by nuclear reactions.
Sugiyama, Jun*; Umegaki, Izumi*; Nozaki, Hiroshi*; Higemoto, Wataru; Hamada, Koji*; Takeshita, Soshi*; Koda, Akihiro*; Shimomura, Koichiro*; Ninomiya, Kazuhiko*; Kubo, Kenya*
Physical Review Letters, 121(8), p.087202_1 - 087202_5, 2018/08
Times Cited Count:19 Percentile:72.66(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Aso, Tomokazu; Teshigawara, Makoto; Hasegawa, Shoichi; Muto, Hideki; Aoyagi, Katsuhiro; Nomura, Kazutaka; Takada, Hiroshi
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 1021(1), p.012085_1 - 012085_4, 2018/06
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)Aso, Tomokazu; Teshigawara, Makoto; Hasegawa, Shoichi; Aoyagi, Katsuhiro*; Muto, Hideki*; Nomura, Kazutaka*; Takada, Hiroshi; Ikeda, Yujiro
JAEA-Technology 2017-021, 75 Pages, 2017/08
Liquid hydrogen is employed as a cold neutron moderator material at the spallation neutron source of Materials and Life science experimental Facility of Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). From January 2015, it became observable that the differential pressure between heat exchangers and an 80 K adsorber (ADS) in a helium refrigerator system increased with operating time. In November 2015, the differential pressure rise became more significant, leading to degrade the refrigerating performance in cooling liquid hydrogen. In order to investigate the cause of the abnormal differential pressure rise between the heat exchangers and the ADS, we carried out visual inspection inside the heat exchangers and analyzed the impurities contained in the helium gas. Unfortunately, we could not identify the impurities causing the performance degradation, but observed a trace of oil in the inlet piping of the heat exchanger. Based on investigations of the abnormal events occurred in the refrigerators with similar refrigerating capacity at other facilities, we took measures that cleaning the heat exchangers with Freon and replacing the ADS with new one. As a result, the differential pressure rise phenomenon was removed to recover the performance. We have detected oil from the Freon used for cleaning the heat exchangers and at a felt supporting charcoal packed in the ADS. In particular, oil was accumulated in membranous form onto the felt at the entrance side in the ADS. The amount of oil contained in the helium gas was about 10 ppb or so, less than the design value, in the helium refrigerator. However, the oil accumulated onto the felt in the ADS through long operating period may cause abnormal differential pressure rise, leading to the performance degradation of the helium refrigerator. Further study is needed to specify the cause more clearly.
Kawamura, Takuma; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Miyamura, Hiroko; Takemiya, Hiroshi
Journal of Visualization, 20(1), p.151 - 162, 2017/02
Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:16.57(Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications)In this paper, we propose a novel transfer function design interface for multivariate volume rendering. In the conventional multivariate volume rendering, GUI based transfer function design interfaces were limited to two-dimensional variables space. In order to design higher dimensional transfer functions in an interactive and intuitive manner, a Transfer Function Synthesizer (TFS) is developed. On the TFS, multi-dimensional transfer functions are generated by algebraic synthesis of one-dimensional transfer functions, which are designed based on the conventional GUIs or algebraic expressions. The TFS enables not only multivariate volume rendering but also general visualization techniques such as surface visualization and image composition within the framework of volume rendering. The TFS is implemented on the remote visualization system PBVR, and applied to various multivariate scalar volume data generated from nuclear applications.
Ito, Takashi; Koda, Akihiro*; Shimomura, Koichiro*; Higemoto, Wataru; Matsuzaki, Teiichiro*; Kobayashi, Yoji*; Kageyama, Hiroshi*
Physical Review B, 95(2), p.020301_1 - 020301_5, 2017/01
Times Cited Count:13 Percentile:50.75(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Ishizawa, Akihiro*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Imadera, Kenji*; Kasuya, Naohiro*; Kanno, Ryutaro*; Satake, Shinsuke*; Tatsuno, Tomoya*; Nakata, Motoki*; Nunami, Masanori*; Maeyama, Shinya*; et al.
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 92(3), p.157 - 210, 2016/03
The high-performance computer system Helios which is located at The Computational Simulation Centre (CSC) in The International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC) started its operation in January 2012 under the Broader Approach (BA) agreement between Japan and the EU. The Helios system has been used for magnetised fusion related simulation studies in the EU and Japan and has kept high average usage rate. As a result, the Helios system has contributed to many research products in a wide range of research areas from core plasma physics to reactor material and reactor engineering. This project review gives a short catalogue of domestic simulation research projects. First, we outline the IFERC-CSC project. After that, shown are objectives of the research projects, numerical schemes used in simulation codes, obtained results and necessary computations in future.
Abe, Hiroshi; Shimomura, Takuya; Tokuhira, Shinnosuke*; Shimada, Yukihiro*; Takenaka, Yusuke*; Furuyama, Yuta*; Nishimura, Akihiko; Uchida, Hirohisa*; Daido, Hiroyuki; Oshima, Takeshi
Proceedings of 7th International Congress on Laser Advanced Materials Processing (LAMP 2015) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2015/08
A short pulse laser (the nanosecond and femtosecond) was applied to hydrogen absorbing alloys surface layer, and a surface modification experiment was put into effective to aim at improvement of hydrogen adsorption functionally. It was investigated about correlation between an initial hydrogen absorption reaction rate of hydrogen alloys and a laser irradiation in this research. The laser irradiation condition was done with pulse width 100 fsec and energy 0.2 - 3.4 mJ/pulse. It blazed down on hydrogen absorbing alloys (LaNiAl
) and changed local order in the surface. As a result, the initial hydrogen absorption reaction rate was 1.5 - 3.0 times as fast as a irradiated sample, and the result and laser irradiated sample found out that a hydrogen absorption function improves. A laser irradiation can conclude to be effective in surface modification of the hydrogen storage materials.
Kawamura, Takuma; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Miyamura, Hiroko; Imamura, Toshiyuki*; Takemiya, Hiroshi
Shisutemu Seigyo Joho Gakkai Rombunshi, 28(5), p.221 - 227, 2015/05
However remote volume visualization is important to obtain knowledge from complicated large-scale simulation results on supercomputer, the rendering speed and data transfer speed becomes bottleneck of the conventional Client/Server volume visualization techniques. Client/Server visualization system using particle-based volume rendering enables interactive volume visualization, which converts the original volume data to small size light particle data utilizing the supercomputer and transfer the data to Client PC. This system generated the particle data at a few seconds using parallel process on supercomputer Kei with strong scaling till 1000 processers.
Kawamura, Takuma; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Miyamura, Hiroko; Takemiya, Hiroshi; Sakamoto, Naohisa*; Koyamada, Koji*
Visualization and Data Analysis 2015 (Proceedings of SPIE Vol.9397) (Internet), p.93970S_1 - 93970S_8, 2015/02
Times Cited Count:5 Percentile:86.46(Computer Science, Theory & Methods)In this paper, we propose a novel remote visualization system based on particle-based volume rendering (PBVR), which enables interactive analyses of extreme scale volume data located on remote computing systems. The remote PBVR system consists of Server, which generates particles for rendering, and Client, which processes volume rendering, and the particle data size becomes significantly smaller than the original volume data. Depending on network bandwidth, the level of detail of images is flexibly controlled to attain high frame rates. Server is highly parallelized on various parallel platforms with hybrid programing model. The mapping process is accelerated by two orders of magnitudes compared with a single CPU. The structured and unstructured volume data with 100 millions of cells is processed within a few seconds. Compared with commodity Client/Server visualization tools, the total processing cost is dramatically reduced by using proposed system.
Kawamura, Takuma; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Miyamura, Hiroko; Takemiya, Hiroshi
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 (SA 2015) (Internet), 4 Pages, 2015/00
In this paper, we propose a novel transfer function design technique for multivariate volume rendering. This technique generates a multidimensional transfer function by logical synthesis of variables and transfer functions. This technique enables analysts to extract correlation of variables and to combine multivariate surface and volume shapes. And this technique is implemented in Remote Visualization System PBVR optimized to several supercomputers. An experiment for the multi-phase fuel melting simulation result in the nuclear energy field shows the powerful ability of this technique enough by extracting complex behavior of molten materials.
Yamada, Fumiaki; Fukano, Yoshitaka; Nishi, Hiroshi; Konomura, Mamoru
Nuclear Technology, 188(3), p.292 - 321, 2014/12
Times Cited Count:20 Percentile:79.55(Nuclear Science & Technology)The capability of natural circulation for core cooling has been evaluated in detail for a station blackout (SBO) event induced by an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami hit. The evaluation was prompted by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company. The plant dynamics computer code Super-COPD was used for the evaluation, which has been validated by analyses of preliminary test results on the natural circulation in Monju. As a result, it was concluded that natural circulation of the sodium coolant will enable the decay heat from the core to be removed under such an SBO condition.
Miyamura, Hiroko; Kawamura, Takuma; Suzuki, Yoshio; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Takemiya, Hiroshi
Joho Shori Gakkai Rombunshi, 55(9), p.2216 - 2224, 2014/09
In numerical simulations, variations of calculation results with respect to a variable axis are often observed. When the target model is given in 3D, the simulation results become 4D. Such a multi-dimensional dataset given in more than 4D space is analyzed by detailed explorations of regions of interest (ROIs) in multi-dimensional space. However, for high-dimensional and large-scale datasets, this approach requires enormous processing time and effort, and may have difficulty in capturing all the ROIs. Therefore, we propose a technique that is based on a concept of spatiotemporal image. In our technique, a space axis is created by octree, a variable axis is defined in the direction perpendicular to the space axis. Our technique is applied to the results of 3D seismic simulations of a nuclear plant, and regions with characteristic frequency responses of each region are analyzed. Through the analyses, it is demonstrated that our technique can effectively capture ROIs from 4D datasets.
Kawamura, Takuma; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Miyamura, Hiroko; Takemiya, Hiroshi
Nihon Shimyureshon Gakkai Rombunshi, 6(2), p.15 - 26, 2014/09
In this paper, we propose a novel remote visualization system based on particle-based volume rendering (PBVR). The system consists of a Server, which generates particles (rendering primitives), and a Client, which process volume rendering, and particles are transferred from Server to Client. The size of particle data is determined by the resolution of rendering images, and is significantly smaller than the original volume data. The smallness of the particle data is useful also for achieving a high frame rate. In the system, Server is highly parallelized on multiple GPGPUs using a hybrid MPI-CUDA programing model. The particle generation is accelerated by two orders of magnitudes compared with CPU, and structured and unstructured volume data with a hundred million cells are processed within a second. The total performance of remote visualization is compared against a commodity visualization tool, and an order of magnitude faster processing speed is achieved.
Kawamura, Takuma; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Miyamura, Hiroko; Takemiya, Hiroshi
Dai-58-Kai Shisutemu Seigyo Joho Gakkai Kenkyu Happyokai Koenkai Koen Rombunshu (CD-ROM), 6 Pages, 2014/05
However remote volume visualization is important to obtain knowledge from complicated large-scale simulation results on supercomputer, the rendering speed and data transfer speed becomes bottleneck of the conventional Client/Server volume visualization techniques. Client/Server visualization system using particle-based volume rendering enables interactive volume visualization, which converts the original volume data to small size light particle data utilizing the supercomputer and transfer the data to Client PC. This system generated the particle data at a few seconds using parallel process on supercomputer Kei with strong scaling till 1000 processers.