TY - JOUR
T1 - A Serpent2-SUBCHANFLOW-TRANSURANUS coupling for pin-by-pin depletion calculations in Light Water Reactors
AU - García, Manuel
AU - Tuominen, Riku
AU - Gommlich, Andre
AU - Ferraro, Diego
AU - Valtavirta, Ville
AU - Imke, Uwe
AU - Van Uffelen, Paul
AU - Mercatali, Luigi
AU - Sanchez-Espinoza, Victor
AU - Leppänen, Jaakko
AU - Kliem, Sören
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was done within the McSAFE project which is receiving funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014?2018 under grant agreement No 755097. This work was performed on the computational resource ForHLR II funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-W?rttemberg and DFG (?Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft?).
Funding Information:
This work was done within the McSAFE project which is receiving funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014–2018 under grant agreement No 755097 . This work was performed on the computational resource ForHLR II funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and DFG (“Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft”). Appendix A
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - This work presents the development of a coupling scheme for Serpent2, a continuous-energy Monte Carlo particle transport code, SUBCHANFLOW, a subchannel thermalhydraulics code, and TRANSURANUS, a fuel-performance code, suitable for large-scale high-fidelity depletion calculations for Light Water Reactors. The calculation method is based on the standard neutronic-thermalhydraulic approach, replacing the simple fuel-rod solver in SUBCHANFLOW with the more complex thermomechanic model of TRANSURANUS. The depletion method is fully coupled and semi-implicit, and the implementation relies on an object-oriented design with mesh-based feedback exchange. The results of the three-code system for a 360-day depletion calculation of a VVER-1000 fuel assembly with a pin-by-pin modelling approach are presented and analyzed. The performance of this tool, as well as the bottlenecks for its application to full-core problems, are discussed.
AB - This work presents the development of a coupling scheme for Serpent2, a continuous-energy Monte Carlo particle transport code, SUBCHANFLOW, a subchannel thermalhydraulics code, and TRANSURANUS, a fuel-performance code, suitable for large-scale high-fidelity depletion calculations for Light Water Reactors. The calculation method is based on the standard neutronic-thermalhydraulic approach, replacing the simple fuel-rod solver in SUBCHANFLOW with the more complex thermomechanic model of TRANSURANUS. The depletion method is fully coupled and semi-implicit, and the implementation relies on an object-oriented design with mesh-based feedback exchange. The results of the three-code system for a 360-day depletion calculation of a VVER-1000 fuel assembly with a pin-by-pin modelling approach are presented and analyzed. The performance of this tool, as well as the bottlenecks for its application to full-core problems, are discussed.
KW - LWR
KW - Multiphysics
KW - Serpent2
KW - SUBCHANFLOW
KW - TRANSURANUS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075562244&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.anucene.2019.107213
DO - 10.1016/j.anucene.2019.107213
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075562244
VL - 139
JO - Annals of Nuclear Energy
JF - Annals of Nuclear Energy
SN - 0306-4549
M1 - 107213
ER -