Abstract
The present study is an attempt towards generating a high fidelity reference database for a wire- wrapped fuel assembly of a liquid metal fast reactor (LMFR). This database will be open to the scientific community and will serve to validate RANS based turbulence modelling approaches. In the present paper, the calibration of an infinite wire wrapped fuel assembly is performed for such high fidelity numerical reference simulations. The selection of the fuel assembly has been made on the present MYRRHA design. A wide range of RANS calculations are performed to calibrate the computational domain, boundary conditions, meshing parameters, and the turbulence quantities. This paper also reports the meshing strategy that has been adopted for the reference high fidelity calculations along with some preliminary results obtained from the on-going quasi Direct Numerical Simulation (q-DNS).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics 2015, NURETH 2015 |
| Publisher | American Nuclear Society |
| Pages | 2817-2829 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781510811843 |
| State | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, NURETH 2015 - Chicago, United States Duration: 30 Aug 2015 → 4 Sep 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics 2015, NURETH 2015 |
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| Volume | 4 |
Conference
| Conference | 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, NURETH 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Chicago |
| Period | 30/08/15 → 4/09/15 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Copyright (2015) by American Nuclcar Society All rights reserved.
Keywords
- LMFR
- MYRRHA
- Q-DNS
- RANS
- Wire-wrapped fuel assembly
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Instrumentation
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering