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Title: Development and Testing of CTF to Support Modeling of BWR Operating Conditions

Abstract

This milestone supports developing and assessing COBRA-TF (CTF) for the modeling of boiling water reactors (BWRs). This is achieved in three stages. First, a new preprocessor utility that is capable of handling BWR-specic design elements (e.g., channel boxes and large water rods) is developed. A previous milestone (L3:PHI.CTF.P12.01) led to the development of this preprocessor capability for single assembly models. This current milestone expands this utility so that it is applicable to multi-assembly BWR models that can be modeled in either serial or parallel. The second stage involves making necessary modications to CTF so that it can execute these new models. Specically, this means implementing an outer-iteration loop, specic to BWR models, that equalizes the pressure loss over all assemblies in the core (which are not connected due to the channel boxes) by adjusting inlet mass ow rate. A third stage involves assessing the standard convergence metrics that are used by CTF to determine when a simulation is steady-state. The nal stage has resulted in the implementation of new metrics in the code that give a better indication of how steady the solution is at convergence. This report summarizes these eorts and provides a demonstration of CTF's BWR-modeling capabilities. CASL-U-2016-1030-000

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  3. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Consortium for Advanced Simulation of LWRs (CASL)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1254090
Report Number(s):
ORNL/TM-2016/44
NT0304000; NEAF343
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS

Citation Formats

Salko, Robert K., Wysocki, Aaron, Collins, Benjamin S., Godfrey, Andrew T., Gosdin, Chris, and Avramova, Maria. Development and Testing of CTF to Support Modeling of BWR Operating Conditions. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.2172/1254090.
Salko, Robert K., Wysocki, Aaron, Collins, Benjamin S., Godfrey, Andrew T., Gosdin, Chris, & Avramova, Maria. Development and Testing of CTF to Support Modeling of BWR Operating Conditions. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1254090
Salko, Robert K., Wysocki, Aaron, Collins, Benjamin S., Godfrey, Andrew T., Gosdin, Chris, and Avramova, Maria. 2016. "Development and Testing of CTF to Support Modeling of BWR Operating Conditions". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1254090. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1254090.
@article{osti_1254090,
title = {Development and Testing of CTF to Support Modeling of BWR Operating Conditions},
author = {Salko, Robert K. and Wysocki, Aaron and Collins, Benjamin S. and Godfrey, Andrew T. and Gosdin, Chris and Avramova, Maria},
abstractNote = {This milestone supports developing and assessing COBRA-TF (CTF) for the modeling of boiling water reactors (BWRs). This is achieved in three stages. First, a new preprocessor utility that is capable of handling BWR-specic design elements (e.g., channel boxes and large water rods) is developed. A previous milestone (L3:PHI.CTF.P12.01) led to the development of this preprocessor capability for single assembly models. This current milestone expands this utility so that it is applicable to multi-assembly BWR models that can be modeled in either serial or parallel. The second stage involves making necessary modications to CTF so that it can execute these new models. Specically, this means implementing an outer-iteration loop, specic to BWR models, that equalizes the pressure loss over all assemblies in the core (which are not connected due to the channel boxes) by adjusting inlet mass ow rate. A third stage involves assessing the standard convergence metrics that are used by CTF to determine when a simulation is steady-state. The nal stage has resulted in the implementation of new metrics in the code that give a better indication of how steady the solution is at convergence. This report summarizes these eorts and provides a demonstration of CTF's BWR-modeling capabilities. CASL-U-2016-1030-000},
doi = {10.2172/1254090},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1254090}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}