TY - JOUR
T1 - COUPLED MULTIPHYSICS PRIMARY LOOP SIMULATIONS OF THE Mk1-FHR IN THE VIRTUAL TEST BED
AU - Giudicelli, Guillaume
AU - Mueller, Cole
AU - Nunez, Daniel
AU - Hua, Thanh
AU - Fang, Jun
AU - Abou-Jaoude, Abdalla
N1 - Funding Information:
This manuscript was authored by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC under contract no. DE-AC07-05ID14517 with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This work was prepared for DOE through the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC). The submitted manuscript was co-authored by UChicago Argonne, LLC, operator of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). ANL, a U.S. DOE Office of Science laboratory, is operated under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. It also made use of the resources of the High Performance Computing Center at Idaho National Laboratory, which is
Funding Information:
supported by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy and the Nuclear Science User Facilities under contract no. DE-AC07-05ID14517, for convergence studies and the generation of group cross sections. The U.S. Government retains for itself, and others acting on its behalf, a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license to said article, enabling it to reproduce the article, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and publicly perform or display portions thereof, by or on behalf of the Government. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research, in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan: energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan.
Funding Information:
This manuscript was authored by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC under contract no. DE-AC07-05ID14517 with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This work was prepared for DOE through the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC). The submitted manuscript was co-authored by UChicago Argonne, LLC, operator of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). ANL, a U.S. DOE Office of Science laboratory, is operated under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. It also made use of the resources of the High Performance Computing Center at Idaho National Laboratory, which is supported by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy and the Nuclear Science User Facilities under contract no. DE-AC07-05ID14517, for convergence studies and the generation of group cross sections. The U.S. Government retains for itself, and others acting on its behalf, a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license to said article, enabling it to reproduce the article, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and publicly perform or display portions thereof, by or on behalf of the Government. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research, in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan: energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - To support advanced reactor demonstrations, the Virtual Test Bed (VTB) [1] repository hosts a wide range of challenge problems for showcasing modeling and simulation capabilities in support of advanced reactor demonstrations. This document presents a coupled multiphysics model of the Mark 1 pebble-bed fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (PB-FHR). The analysis leverages NEAMS tools (Griffin [2], SAM [3], Pronghorn [4], and the MOOSE [5] heat conduction module) for core neutronics, thermal hydraulics of the core and primary loop, and multiscale fuel performance simulations. The analysis was entirely created by coupling standalone simulations of the reactor that were previously available on the VTB. All input files and documentation developed for this example are available on the VTB website: mooseframework.inl.gov/virtual_test_bed/. This model was featured in the National Reactor Innovation Center Tech Talk presented in December 2021.
AB - To support advanced reactor demonstrations, the Virtual Test Bed (VTB) [1] repository hosts a wide range of challenge problems for showcasing modeling and simulation capabilities in support of advanced reactor demonstrations. This document presents a coupled multiphysics model of the Mark 1 pebble-bed fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (PB-FHR). The analysis leverages NEAMS tools (Griffin [2], SAM [3], Pronghorn [4], and the MOOSE [5] heat conduction module) for core neutronics, thermal hydraulics of the core and primary loop, and multiscale fuel performance simulations. The analysis was entirely created by coupling standalone simulations of the reactor that were previously available on the VTB. All input files and documentation developed for this example are available on the VTB website: mooseframework.inl.gov/virtual_test_bed/. This model was featured in the National Reactor Innovation Center Tech Talk presented in December 2021.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85165722844
UR - https://www.ans.org/pubs/transactions/article-52511/
U2 - 10.13182/T127-39765
DO - 10.13182/T127-39765
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85165722844
SN - 0003-018X
VL - 127
SP - 944
EP - 947
JO - Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
JF - Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
IS - 1
T2 - 2022 Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting and Technology Expo, ANS 2022
Y2 - 13 November 2022 through 17 November 2022
ER -