Welcome to JADE’s documentation!

JADE is a Verification & Validation (V&V) framework for nuclear data libraries and transport codes. Use JADE to automatically generate, run and post-process benchmarks and compare the results obtained using different nuclear data libraries and transport codes combinations.

JADE is an open-source software licensed under the gnulicense and it is hosted on GitHub here.

Development was initially started in 2019 by NIER, University of Bologna (UNIBO) and Fusion For Energy (F4E), and it is today carried out mainly by F4E and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). You can find an up to date and detailed list of contributors in the contributor_list section.

When using JADE for scientific publications you are kindly encouraged to cite the following papers:

• Davide Laghi et al, 2020, “JADE, a new software tool for nuclear fusion data libraries verification & validation”, Fusion Engineering and Design, 161 112075, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2020.112075.

• D. Laghi, M. Fabbri, L. Isolan, M. Sumini, G. Shnabel and A. Trkov, 2021, “Application Of JADE V&V Capabilities To The New FENDL v3.2 Beta Release”, Nuclear Fusion, 61 116073. doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ac121a

For additional information contact: davide.laghi@f4e.europa.eu

For additional information on future developments please check the issues list on the GitHub repository.

JADE:

• User Guide
  • Install and Configure
    • Installation
    • Configure JADE
    • Folder Structure
  • JADE execution
    • Run
    • Post-Processing
    • Utilities
    • Tips & Tricks
    • Troubleshooting
• Developers Guide
  • Overview of JADE architecture
    • JADE V&V ecosystem
    • High level overview
    • JADE App
    • Benchmark execution architecture
    • Raw processing architecture
    • Excel processing architecture
    • Atlas processing architecture
  • Contributing to JADE
    • Terminology
    • Development Workflow
    • Modify documentation using Sphinx
  • JADE CI and automatic testing
    • Brief introduction
    • Testing in JADE
  • First steps
    • Where should I put the benchmarks input files?
    • Modify the default run_cfg file
  • Add the raw config file
    • The result concept
    • Tally modifiers
    • Concatenation options
    • Implement new tally modifier
    • Implement new tallies combinator
  • Add the excel config file
    • The table concept
    • Implement a new table type
  • Add the atlas config file
    • The plot concept
    • Implement a new plot type
  • Post-Processing Gallery
    • Table types
    • Plot types
  • Add a new transport code
  • WebApp
    • Mandatory configuration options
    • Recommended configuration options
    • Optional configuration options
• Benchmarks
  • Overview
  • Computational Benchmarks
    • Sphere Leakage
    • ITER 1D
    • Test Blanket Module
    • C-Model
    • Sphere SDDR
    • ITER CYLINDER SDDR
    • Simple Tokamak
  • Experimental Benchmarks
    • FNG SDDR Experiment
    • FNG Bulk Blanket and Shield Experiment
    • FNG Benchmark Experiment on Tungsten
    • FNG Silicon Carbide (FNG SiC)
    • FNG Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) Tritium Breeder Module (TBM) Mock-up
    • FNG Stainless Steel (FNG SS)
    • TUD Spectra Measurements (FNG Bulk Shield)
    • FNG/TUD Tungsten Experiment
    • ASPIS Iron-88 benchmark
    • Winfrith Water/Iron Benchmark Experiment (ASPIS-PCA-Replica)
    • Oktavian
    • Tiara
    • FNS Time-of-Flight Experiment
    • TUD Iron Slab Benchmark Experiment
    • (IPPE-DT) Institute of Physics and Power Engineering DT Iron Sphere Experiment
    • (IPPE-CF) Institute of Physics and Power Engineering 252Cf
    • (RCR-SS) RCR Stainless Steel Block Experiment with 252Cf source
    • (RCR-Fe+Ni) RCR Iron/Nickel Sphere Experiment with 252Cf source
    • ISIS Benchmark Experiment on Deep-Penetration Neutrons through Concrete and Iron Shields WITH 800 MeV PROTONS
• Publications
  • Publications featuring JADE
  • Benchmarks Related Publications
  • Miscellaneous

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page