Possibility of Joint Activity

in
Enhancing Nuclear-based
Computational Research in Indonesia

Topan Setiadipura

[The hard copy of this file was gave to Prof.Si-Hwan Kim, President of Korean
Nuclear Society (KNS), at the Assignment of MOU between HIMNI and KNS as an
unofficial proposal, at BATAN Ps.Jum’at 9 Februari 2007, with permission from
Dr.Ferhat Aziz, Secretary General of HIMNI]
 Background
• Indonesian option to applied nuclear reactor power
plant in 2016.
• Lack of knowledge and experience in nuclear
reactor analysis method development
• Lack of human resources in nuclear science and
engineering research, specially in computational
method application and development.
 Ideas and Motivations
• Stimulate the computational method application and development in
nuclear reactor science and engineering.
• Enhance the coordination between the research activity at national
research agency and the more education-rich activity at university
under the national research agenda.
• Strengthen mutual-cooperation with broad nuclear research, specially
one with a strong experience in nuclear computational method
application and development.
 What we have??
• National agency for nuclear-based research
including,off course, the researcher.
• University that run a related course,
including the student with research-
obligation.
• International multirateral or bilateral
cooperation in nuclear science and
engineering research development.
 Activities
• Nuclear computational method application
and development activity.
• High-performance computing resources
with ‘remote acces capability’ development
activity.
• Nuclear reactor science and engineering
research stimulating-activity.
 Nuclear method analyses…
• Stimulate the appication of existing codes
for strategic topics related to #1 Indonesian
power plant
• Strengthen the understanding of the
computational method used in the codes.
• Code or method development for nuclear
reactor analyses.
 High performance computing
• PC-cluster development
• Web-based application development
• Grid-computing development
 Stimulating…
• Website development
• Series of ‘studium general’ at the university.
• Design a dedicated class on nuclear computational
method at the university.
• E-learning
• E-experiment
• Student seminar on nuclear science and
engineering specially nuclear computational
method.
 Illustration …

Data

Workstation
KOREAN
Researc Center
University
of
Indonesia

E-learning,

Knowledges & e-
experiment.

experiences
transfer
E-learning,
e-
experiment.

Bogor
Data
Institute of
Agriculture
Workstation
BATAN
Data&Computational-
Center

E-learning,
e-
experiment.

Institute of
Technology
Badung
 Joint-activities…
• Knowledge and experience transfer in nuclear
computational method development.
• Research information sharing.
• Short-term, mid-term, or long-term training.
• Degree program opportunity on related subject.
• Joint-research on ‘state-of-the-art’ computational
science and engineering.
 Existing development…

• Finite element method for microstructural

analyses of nuclear reactor (PWR) fuel, including
the heat transfer.
• Monte carlo method for neutronic analyses of
nuclear reactor.
• Parallel computing method.
• Finite difference method for thermal-hydraulic
analyses.