TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling and Analysis of a Micro-reactor using the DireWolf Code Suite
AU - Roskoff, Nathan
AU - Kucukboyaci, Vefa
AU - Levinsky, Alex
AU - Laboure, Vincent
AU - Harter, Jackson
AU - Zabriskie, Adam
AU - Charlot, Lise
N1 - Funding Information:
use of the resources of the High-Performance Computing Center at Idaho National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Nuclear Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Nuclear Science User Facilities under Contract No. DEAC07-05ID14517.
Funding Information:
This work is supported by the DOE ARPA-E MEITNER award (DE-FOA-0001798). This research made use of the resources of the High-Performance Computing Center at Idaho National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Nuclear Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Nuclear Science User Facilities under Contract No. DEAC07-05ID14517.
Funding Information:
This work is supported by the DOE ARAP -E MEITNER award (DE-FOA-0001798). This research made
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - Micro-reactors, specifically those cooled with heat pipes, are tightly coupled systems which require multi-physics tools to accurately model both steady-state and transient behavior. Idaho National Laboratory's DireWolf code suite is tailor-built to model heat-pipe reactors. DireWolf's ability to model the coupled steady-state behavior of a heat-pipe micro-reactor are demonstrated herein. The DireWolf modeling methodology is described, and a micro-reactor design is introduced. A full-core model is developed, and the steady-state coupled neutronics-thermal analysis is performed. Results of the analyses, including flux, power, and temperature distributions are presented and discussed.
AB - Micro-reactors, specifically those cooled with heat pipes, are tightly coupled systems which require multi-physics tools to accurately model both steady-state and transient behavior. Idaho National Laboratory's DireWolf code suite is tailor-built to model heat-pipe reactors. DireWolf's ability to model the coupled steady-state behavior of a heat-pipe micro-reactor are demonstrated herein. The DireWolf modeling methodology is described, and a micro-reactor design is introduced. A full-core model is developed, and the steady-state coupled neutronics-thermal analysis is performed. Results of the analyses, including flux, power, and temperature distributions are presented and discussed.
KW - Direwolf
KW - micro-reactor
KW - multi-physics analyses
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85161704901
UR - https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1875121
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9780894487873
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022
SP - 2842
EP - 2851
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022
PB - American Nuclear Society
T2 - 2022 International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022
Y2 - 15 May 2022 through 20 May 2022
ER -