COUPLED MULTIPHYSICS MULTISCALE TRANSIENT SIMULATIONS OF THE Mk1-FHR REACTOR USING FINITE VOLUME CAPABILITIES OF THE MOOSE FRAMEWORK

Guillaume Giudicelli, Alexander Lindsay, Paolo Balestra, Robert Carlsen, Javier Ortensi, Derek Gaston, Mark DeHart, Abdalla Abou-Jaoude, April J. Novak

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Abstract

Multiphysics simulations are key to reactor safety analysis, especially for novel reactor designs lacking experimental data. Simulation tools within the MOOSE framework, such as the Griffin reactor physics application and the coarse mesh computational fluid dynamics solver Pronghorn, can be coupled to perform such multiphysics transient simulations. We feature those capabilities in tightly-coupled multiphysics transient simulations of a simplified Mk1 PB-FHR reactor. A porous media model based on the incompressible Navier Stokes equation was implemented using the finite volume method for this work. This leverages the newly implemented finite volume discretization feature in MOOSE.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021
PublisherAmerican Nuclear Society
Pages2251-2262
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781713886310
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event2021 International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Oct 3 2021Oct 7 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021

Conference

Conference2021 International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering, M and C 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/3/2110/7/21

Keywords

  • finite volume
  • Griffin
  • MOOSE
  • MSR
  • multiphysics
  • PB-FHR
  • porous media flow
  • Pronghorn

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear Energy and Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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