A Multi-Year Plan for Enhancing Turbulence Modeling in Hydra-TH

Technical Report · Wed Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/3009421· OSTI ID:3009421

Smith, Thomas M. ^[1]; Christon, Mark ^[2]; Berndt, Markus ^[2]; Baglietto, Emilio ^[3]; Magolan, Ben ^[3]; Stagg, Alan K ^[4]; Luo, Hong ^[5]

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1. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
2. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4. ORNL
5. North Carolina State University

The purpose of this milestone report is to document a multi-year plan for enhancing turbulence modeling in Hydra-TH. In Phase II of the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) program, Hydra-TH is being developed to the meet the high-fidelity, high-Reynolds number CFD based thermal hydraulic simulation needs of the program. This work will be conducted within the thermal hydraulics methods (THM) focus area. This objective will be met by; maturation of recently added models, strategic design/development of new models and systematic and rigorous testing of existing and new models and model extensions. This report will also serve to meet the requirements of CASL level three milestone, L3:THM.CFD.P10.02, scheduled for completion March 31, 2015.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 3009421
• Report Number(s): CASL-U-2015-4126
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English