TY - JOUR
T1 - OECD/NRC PWR MOX/UO2 core transient benchmark pin-by-pin solutions using Serpent/SUBCHANFLOW
AU - Ferraro, Diego
AU - Valtavirta, Ville
AU - García, Manuel
AU - Imke, Uwe
AU - Tuominen, Riku
AU - Leppänen, Jaakko
AU - Sanchez-Espinoza, Victor
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”).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - In this work, high-fidelity calculations using a recently developed coupled scheme between the Serpent 2 Monte Carlo transport code and the SUBCHANFLOW subchannnel thermal–hydraulic code are done for the well-known full core MOX/UO2 PWR OECD/NRC benchmark. Main steps proposed within the benchmark are developed, ranging from uncoupled 2D cases to full 3D coupled cases both for steady-state and transient scenarios. A good agreement is found with the reported values, assessing the capabilities of this novel approach to provide highly-detailed results at a full-core PWR level using a pin-by-pin coupling.
AB - In this work, high-fidelity calculations using a recently developed coupled scheme between the Serpent 2 Monte Carlo transport code and the SUBCHANFLOW subchannnel thermal–hydraulic code are done for the well-known full core MOX/UO2 PWR OECD/NRC benchmark. Main steps proposed within the benchmark are developed, ranging from uncoupled 2D cases to full 3D coupled cases both for steady-state and transient scenarios. A good agreement is found with the reported values, assessing the capabilities of this novel approach to provide highly-detailed results at a full-core PWR level using a pin-by-pin coupling.
KW - coupled transient calculations
KW - High-fidelity multiphysics
KW - Monte Carlo
KW - OECD/NRC PWR MOX/UO
KW - Serpent 2
KW - SUBCHANFLOW
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U2 - 10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107745
DO - 10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107745
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089238610
VL - 147
JO - Annals of Nuclear Energy
JF - Annals of Nuclear Energy
SN - 0306-4549
M1 - 107745
ER -