DYN3D and CTF Coupling within a Multiscale and Multiphysics Software Development (Part I)



Davies, Sebastian, Litskevich, Dzianis ORCID: 0000-0002-3207-3058, Rohde, Ulrich, Detkina, Anna, Merk, Bruno, Bryce, Paul, Levers, Andrew ORCID: 0000-0002-8098-5027 and Ravindra, Venkata
(2021) DYN3D and CTF Coupling within a Multiscale and Multiphysics Software Development (Part I). ENERGIES, 14 (16). p. 5060.

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Abstract

<jats:p>Understanding and optimizing the relation between nuclear reactor components or physical phenomena allows us to improve the economics and safety of nuclear reactors, deliver new nuclear reactor designs, and educate nuclear staff. Such relation in the case of the reactor core is described by coupled reactor physics as heat transfer depends on energy production while energy production depends on heat transfer with almost none of the available codes providing full coupled reactor physics at the fuel pin level. A Multiscale and Multiphysics nuclear software development between NURESIM and CASL for LWRs has been proposed for the UK. Improved coupled reactor physics at the fuel pin level can be simulated through coupling nodal codes such as DYN3D as well as subchannel codes such as CTF. In this journal article, the first part of the DYN3D and CTF coupling within the Multiscale and Multiphysics software development is presented to evaluate all inner iterations within one outer iteration to provide partially verified improved coupled reactor physics at the fuel pin level. Such verification has proven that the DYN3D and CTF coupling provides improved feedback distributions over the DYN3D coupling as crossflow and turbulent mixing are present in the former.</jats:p>

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: nuclear reactor, coupled reactor physics, nodal code, subchannel code, DYN3D, CTF, KAIST
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > IDEAS
Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 07 Sep 2021 08:13
Last Modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:53
DOI: 10.3390/en14165060
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/en14165060
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3136141