DEVELOPMENT OF AN ITERATIVE METHOD TO SOLVE THE DIFFUSION PROBLEM IN THE PREDESIGN STEP

One of the most important and difficult steps in the design process is the predesign. In this step, the main goal is to obtain the geometry characteristics and some other features to solve the problem we want to solve. Thus, reducing the duration of this phase is one of the challenging objectives in the actual engineering design process. As regards our study, following the energy deposition calculations with the means of the FLUKA code, a heat diffusion code is usually needed to calculate the evolution in time of the temperature distributions as well the associated stresses on the object under study. As a preliminary optimization step in the object design process, in this project we are proposing thedevelopment of a new method implemented in a code which allows us to obtain the solution for this equation in a complex geometry by using the information given by the FLUKA code for a simple geometry. By this way, we will be able to reduce the predesign phase duration.