The U.S. Department of Energy (US DOE) Office of Environmental Management, Technology Innovation and Development is supporting a multi-National Laboratory effort to develop the Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management (ASCEM). ASCEM is an emerging state-of-the-art scientific approach and software infrastructure for understanding and predicting contaminant fate and transport in natural and engineered systems. These modular and open-source high performance computing tools and user interfaces will facilitate integrated approaches that enable standardized assessments of performance and risk for EM cleanup and closure decisions. The ASCEM team recognized that engaging end-users in the ASCEM development process would lead to enhanced development and implementation of the ASCEM toolsets in the user community. End-user involvement in ASCEM covers a broad spectrum of perspectives, including: performance assessment (PA) and risk assessment practitioners, research scientists, decision-makers, oversight personnel, and regulators engaged in the US DOE cleanup mission. End-users are primarily engaged in ASCEM via the ASCEM User Steering Committee (USC) and the ‘user needs interface’ task. Future plans also include user involvement in demonstrations of the ASCEM tools. This paper will describe the details of how end users have been engaged in the ASCEM program and will demonstrate how this involvement has strengthened both the tool development and community confidence. ASCEM tools requested by end-users specifically target modeling challenges associated with US DOE cleanup activities. The demonstration activities involve application of ASCEM tools and capabilities to representative problems at DOE sites. Selected results from the ASCEM Phase 1 demonstrations are discussed to illustrate how capabilities requested by end-users were implemented in prototype versions of the ASCEM tool.
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ASME 2011 14th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management
September 25–29, 2011
Reims, France
Conference Sponsors:
- Nuclear Engineering Division and Environmental Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5498-3
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Identification and Implementation of End-User Needs During Development of a State-of-the-Art Modeling Toolset
Roger Seitz,
Roger Seitz
Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC
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Mark Freshley,
Mark Freshley
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
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Mark Williamson,
Mark Williamson
U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, MD
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Paul Dixon,
Paul Dixon
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Las Vegas, NV
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Kurt Gerdes,
Kurt Gerdes
U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, MD
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Yvette T. Collazo,
Yvette T. Collazo
U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
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Susan Hubbard
Susan Hubbard
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
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Roger Seitz
Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC
Mark Freshley
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Mark Williamson
U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, MD
Paul Dixon
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Las Vegas, NV
Kurt Gerdes
U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, MD
Yvette T. Collazo
U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
Susan Hubbard
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Paper No:
ICEM2011-59069, pp. 1283-1290; 8 pages
Published Online:
August 17, 2012
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Seitz, R, Freshley, M, Williamson, M, Dixon, P, Gerdes, K, Collazo, YT, & Hubbard, S. "Identification and Implementation of End-User Needs During Development of a State-of-the-Art Modeling Toolset." Proceedings of the ASME 2011 14th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASME 2011 14th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, Parts A and B. Reims, France. September 25–29, 2011. pp. 1283-1290. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICEM2011-59069
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