Serpent/SUBCHANFLOW pin-by-pin coupled transient calculations for the SPERT-IIIE hot full power tests

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

doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107387

Serpent/SUBCHANFLOW pin-by-pin coupled transient calculations for the SPERT-IIIE hot full power tests

Diego Ferraro (Corresponding Author), Manuel García, Ville Valtavirta, Uwe Imke, Riku Tuominen, Jaakko Leppänen, Victor Sanchez-Espinoza

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Abstract

The development of highly accurate methodologies in reactor physics requires as mandatory step a proper comparison with experimental data for relevant configurations. In this work, transient high-fidelity calculations using a recently developed coupled scheme between the Serpent 2 Monte Carlo transport code and the SUBCHANFLOW subchannnel thermalhydraulic code are done for selected reactivity insertion experiments from the SPERT-IIIE reactor. A graded approach is developed, where global and detailed results are obtained and compared with available experimental data. A good agreement is found for this novel approach, thus providing an initial step towards the validation of the tool within a configuration and operational conditions comparable to a PWR.

Original language	English
Article number	107387
Journal	Annals of Nuclear Energy
Volume	142
Early online date	21 Feb 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107387
Publication status	Published - Jul 2020
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Coupled transient calculations
High-fidelity multiphysics
Monte Carlo
Serpent 2
SPERT-IIIE
SUBCHANFLOW

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Ferraro, D., García, M., Valtavirta, V., Imke, U., Tuominen, R., Leppänen, J., & Sanchez-Espinoza, V. (2020). Serpent/SUBCHANFLOW pin-by-pin coupled transient calculations for the SPERT-IIIE hot full power tests. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 142, [107387]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107387

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