A subchannel coarsening method for Serpent2-SUBCHANFLOW applied to a full-core VVER problem

Manuel García; Diego Ferraro; Ville Valtavirta; Riku Tuominen; Uwe Imke; Luigi Mercatali; Victor Sanchez-Espinoza; Jaakko Leppänen

doi:10.1051/epjconf/202124706018

A subchannel coarsening method for Serpent2-SUBCHANFLOW applied to a full-core VVER problem

Manuel García^*
, Diego Ferraro
, Ville Valtavirta
, Riku Tuominen
, Uwe Imke
, Luigi Mercatali
, Victor Sanchez-Espinoza
, Jaakko Leppänen

^*Corresponding author for this work

BA4501 Reactor analysis

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

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Abstract

This work presents a methodology to coarsen subchannel models to accelerate large-scale Serpent2-SUBCHANFLOW calculations. The method is based on first building a fully detailed subchannel model and then combining subchannels into larger channels with condensed hydraulic parameters. To quantify the accuracy and performance of this scheme, a full-core VVER-1000 problem is simulated with Serpent2-SUBCHANFLOW using two types of coarsened models, as well as a standard subchannel model as reference.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1049-1056
Number of pages	8
Journal	EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume	247
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202124706018
Publication status	Published - 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2020: Transition to a Scalable Nuclear Future - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 28 Mar 2020 → 2 Apr 2020

Funding

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.

Keywords

Multiphysics
Serpent2
SUBCHANFLOW
Subchannel coarsening
VVER

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