Initial thermal-hydraulic assessment by OpenFOAM and FLUENT of a subcritical irradiation facility
| Autor: | Gabriele Firpo, Guglielmo Lomonaco, Carlo Maria Viberti, M. Osipenko, Marco Ripani, Walter Borreani, Marco Palmero, Maurizio Bruzzone, Paolo Saracco, Davide Chersola, Fabio Panza |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Nuclear transmutation ADS 010308 nuclear & particles physics Computer science 020209 energy Nuclear engineering Frame (networking) Thermal power station 02 engineering and technology ANSYS FLUENT 01 natural sciences ADS CFD ANSYS FLUENT OpenFOAM CHANDA Ansys fluent Thermal hydraulics Nuclear reactor core 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Fluent OpenFOAM CHANDA CFD |
| Popis: | Aim of this work is the preliminary thermal-fluid-dynamic assessment of a subcritical system to perform integral measurements on transmutation processes, designed in the frame of EU CHANDA project: in particular, a low power Accelerator Driven System (ADS) may represent an attractive intermediate step to fill the gap between existing and future facilities like MYRRHA (or possibly EFIT). The activity finds its place within the roadmap for the evaluation of transmutation processes in ADSs, where currently measurements are performed on the zero-power ADS Guinevere at SCK·CEN (Mol, Belgium), while in the future it is expected that MYRRHA will be the major high-power facility for performing this kind of studies and assessing the performance of a fast ADS. The neutronic characterization and burn-up simulations based on MCNP6 code of the reactor core allowed the definition of the geometry and the composition of the fuel assembly and, therefore, the thermal power to be removed. On this basis a thermo-fluid-dynamic assessment, through simple analytical accounts and detailed 3D CFD calculations by OpenFOAM-v1612+ and ANSYS FLUENT v17.0 was made. The present paper is an extended version including the main conclusions and observations emerged in the 2nd AIGE-IIETA International Conference in Genoa. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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