High-fidelity simulation-driven model development for coarse-grained computational fluid dynamics
Conference
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OSTI ID:22977490
- North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC27606 (United States)
Nuclear reactor safety analysis requires analysis of a broad range of accident scenarios and determining their consequences. For a nuclear power plant behavior, it is impossible to obtain experimental data at sufficiently large scales to support calibration and validation of various system models. In single-phase flow convective problems, high-resolution methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) such as Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) can provide high fidelity results under conditions where physical measurements are unavailable. However, such high-resolution simulations are computationally expensive and not suitable for simulation of long transient scenarios in nuclear reactor accidents. In this work, we investigate the use of a high fidelity simulation-driven approach to model sub-grid scale (SGS) effect in Coarse Grained Computational Fluid Dynamics CG-CFD. Notably, fine-mesh simulations are used to construct physics-informed statistical surrogate of coarse-mesh SGS model. For an initial analysis, we consider a case of turbulent natural convection in a volumetrically heated fluid layer with a thermally insulated lower boundary and isothermal upper boundary. This scenario of unstable stratification is relevant to turbulent natural convection in a severe nuclear reactor accident, as well as in containment mixing and passive cooling. For this type of flow, the SGS effect is modeled by an added turbulent diffusivity in the energy equation. It is shown that a global correction for the energy equation is sufficient to achieve a significant improvement to the CG-CFD prediction of thermal mixing in the fluid layer. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society - ANS, Thermal Hydraulics Division, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22977490
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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