User Guide

The User Guide explains how to use ARMI. It will cover getting and installing ARMI and its prerequisites, making ARMI input files, running various kinds of ARMI runs, analyzing ARMI output files,

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• 1. Installation
  • 1.1. Prerequisites
  • 1.2. Preparing a Virtual Environment
  • 1.3. Getting the code
• 2. Guided Tutorials
  • 2.1. Nuclides and ARMI
  • 2.2. The ARMI Material Library
  • 2.3. Building input files for a reactor
  • 2.4. Hands-on at the ARMI Terminal
• 3. Inputs
  • 3.1. The Settings Input File
  • 3.2. The Blueprints Input File
  • 3.3. The Facemap Input File
  • 3.4. Fuel Management Input
  • 3.5. Settings Report
• 4. Outputs
  • 4.1. The Standard Output
  • 4.2. The Database File
• 5. Accessing Data in ARMI
  • 5.1. Settings and State Variables
  • 5.2. Accessing Some Interesting Info
• 6. Branch Searching
• 7. Physics Coupling