Coupling coarse mesh CFD with fine mesh CFD for modeling for Molten Salt Reactors in the Virtual Test Bed VTB
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OSTI ID:2480350
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Texas A&M University
- Argonne National Laboratory
The Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program aims at developing a simulation tool kit to accelerate the development and deployment of nuclear power technologies. NEAMS multiphysics tools have been designed to provide numerical simulation support for the design and licensing of GEN IV reactors. Pronghorn is NEAMS’s coarse-mesh computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool, which is designed to run 3D core transients in GEN IV reactors at a reduced computational cost. To increase their accuracy, coarse-mesh CFD simulations require calibrated closure coefficients. One way of computing these coefficients is via the Nek5000, NEAMS’s high-fidelity CFD tool. This article discusses our current research lines in informing Pronghorn closure coefficients via Nek5000 to enable multiphysics simulations of the core cavity of the molten-salt fast reactor. We present an application in which Pronghorn mixing length turbulent viscosity has been calibrated from Nek5000 simulations. The resulting Pronghorn thermal-hydraulics model is then coupled to Griffin, the NEAMS neutron transport solver, to solve for the steady-state configuration of the molten-salt fast reactor.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- 62
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517;
- OSTI ID:
- 2480350
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-21-65062-Rev000
- Conference Information:
- Physor 2022, Pittsburgh, 05/15/2022 - 05/20/2022
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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