TY - JOUR
T1 - Serpent/SUBCHANFLOW pin-by-pin coupled transient calculations for the SPERT-IIIE hot full power tests
AU - Ferraro, Diego
AU - García, Manuel
AU - Valtavirta, Ville
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-Württemberg 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-W?rttemberg and DFG (?Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft?).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Coupled transient calculations
KW - High-fidelity multiphysics
KW - Monte Carlo
KW - Serpent 2
KW - SPERT-IIIE
KW - SUBCHANFLOW
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U2 - 10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107387
DO - 10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107387
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85080083950
VL - 142
JO - Annals of Nuclear Energy
JF - Annals of Nuclear Energy
SN - 0306-4549
M1 - 107387
ER -