Improvements in High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor Modeling Capabilities in the Pronghorn Code
This report details the improvement of pebble bed reactor modeling capabilities in the Pronghorn code in fiscal year 2022. The following accomplishments are reported: Deployment of weakly compressible finite volume formulation to the HTR- PM reference plan model; Enable modeling of stagnant gas gaps in the finite volume formulation; Enable using all Pronghorn correlations available in the finite element version in the finite volume version; Modeling of decay heat in pebble bed reactors; Simplifying the input for multiphysics equilibrium core calculations and significant reduction of execution time; Implementation of advanced correlations developed by the Center of Excellence for Thermal-Fluids Applications in Nuclear Energy. In addition, this report includes a development plan for Pronghorn and associated NEAMS tools for prismatic gas-cooled reactors.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1998243
- Report Number(s):
- INL/RPT-22-69263-Rev000; TRN: US2404682
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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