Enhancing the ABAQUS thermomechanics code to simulate multipellet steady and transient LWR fuel rod behavior

Keyphrases

• ABAQUS 100%
• Thermomechanics 100%
• LWR Fuel 100%
• Fuel Rod Behavior 100%
• Thermal Properties 33%
• Densification 33%
• Commercially Available 33%
• Fuel Rod 33%
• Computational Results 33%
• Burnup 33%
• Transient Analysis 33%
• UO2(II) 33%
• Irradiation 33%
• Heat Transfer 33%
• Plenum 33%
• Fuel Performance Code 33%
• Fuel Behavior 33%
• Solid Fission Products 33%
• Fission Gas Release 33%
• Gassing Behavior 33%
• Irradiation Creep 33%
• Thermal Creep 33%
• Fuel Performance Analysis 33%
• 2D Axisymmetric Model 33%
• Steady Operation 33%
• Growth Gap 33%
• Axisymmetric Analysis 33%
• Gaseous Fission Products 33%
• Thermo-mechanical Coupling 33%
• Pellets Model 33%
• Steady Analysis 33%
• Coupled Thermo-mechanical 33%
• Transient Operation 33%
• Irradiation Growth 33%

Engineering

• Fuel Rod 100%
• Burnup 50%
• Densification 50%
• Transient Analysis 50%
• Fission Product 50%
• Code Performance 50%
• Gas Release 50%
• Thermal Creep 50%
• Irradiation Creep 50%
• Axisymmetric 50%
• Thermomechanical Coupling 50%
• Performance Analysis 50%