MSTS - Multiphase Subsurface Transport Simulator theory manual

Technical Report · Sat May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/139471· OSTI ID:139471

White, M D; Nichols, W E

The US Department of Energy, through the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Office, has designated the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada for detailed study as the candidate US geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. Site characterization will determine the suitability of the Yucca Mountain site for the potential waste repository. If the site is determined suitable, subsequent studies and characterization will be conducted to obtain authorization from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct the potential waste repository. A principal component of the characterization and licensing processes involves numerically predicting the thermal and hydrologic response of the subsurface environment of the Yucca Mountain site to the potential repository over a 10,000-year period. The thermal and hydrologic response of the subsurface environment to the repository is anticipated to include complex processes of countercurrent vapor and liquid migration, multiple-phase heat transfer, multiple-phase transport, and geochemical reactions. Numerical simulators based on mathematical descriptions of these subsurface phenomena are required to make numerical predictions of the thermal and hydrologic response of the Yucca Mountain subsurface environment The engineering simulator called the Multiphase Subsurface Transport Simulator (MSTS) was developed at the request of the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Office to produce numerical predictions of subsurface flow and transport phenomena at the potential Yucca Mountain site. This document delineates the design architecture and describes the specific computational algorithms that compose MSTS. Details for using MSTS and sample problems are given in the {open_quotes}User`s Guide and Reference{close_quotes} companion document.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 139471
• Report Number(s): PNL--8636; ON: DE93016342
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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05 NUCLEAR FUELS
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ALGORITHMS
ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN
ENGINEERING
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
GEOLOGY
HEAT TRANSFER
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
HYDROLOGY
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NEVADA
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION
SIMULATORS
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
UNDERGROUND SPACE
US DOE
YUCCA MOUNTAIN
Yucca Mountain Project