Evaluating the Practicability of Multiphase CFD for BWR Fuel Assembly Analysis
Conference
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OSTI ID:1891526
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Messachusetts Institute of Technology
Multiphase computational fluid dynamics (M-CFD) models of a boiling water reactor (BWR) fuel assembly have been generated in the commercial CFD code, STAR-CCM+ Ver.11.04.010-R8. The Eulerian multiphase approach was employed, in combination with a baseline ‘Zero Closure model’ for two-phase flow boiling, applicable to high void fraction regimes. The capability and practicability of MCFD for BWR fuel assembly were evaluated against the international OECD/NRC BWR Full-size Finemesh Bundle Test (BFBT) benchmark data. The benchmark selected, BFBT-4101-61, is a steady-state full power case, with high void fraction conditions. Geometrical modeling and mesh construction of BWR assemblies introduce challenges in generating high quality computational meshes, while retaining a low cell count to allow acceptable runtimes. In order to evaluate the scalability of the CFD code, parallel CFD simulations were carried out with the High Performance Computing (HPC) system of the Idaho National Laboratory. M-CFD results display good agreement with the experimental data for both local void fraction distribution and exit quality. The parallel speedup factor is linearly proportional to the number of processors up to 500 cores, and retains over 92% efficiency with 1000 cores. The execution time of the simulation decreased exponentially with increasing number of processors while the cost of the simulation increased linearly. The proposed baseline closure, in combination with the parallel performance of the STAR-CCM+ code demonstrated promising capabilities for analyzing BWR fuel assemblies.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1891526
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-16-40444-Rev001
- Country of Publication:
- Korea, Republic of
- Language:
- English
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