Pronghorn: A Multidimensional Coarse-Mesh Application for Advanced Reactor Thermal Hydraulics

Thermal-Hydraulics analysis of pressurized water reactor core by using single heated channel model

Thermal hydraulics of nuclear reactor as a basis of reactor safety has a very important role in reactor design and control. The thermal-hydraulic analysis provides input data to the reactor-physics analysis, whereas the latter gives information about the distribution of heat sources, which is needed to perform the thermal-hydraulic analysis. In this study single heated channel model as a very f...

Thermal Hydraulics Design Limits

The following discussion of PWR steady state and transient design limits is extracted from the theses of Carter Shuffler and Jarrod Trant while the BWR discussion is extracted from Paolo Ferroni's thesis (covers steady state only). These limits are a simplified and narrower discussion than the relevant NRC standard review plan you will also be referred to. All materials are directly extracted f...

A Three Dimensional Heterogeneous Coarse Mesh Transport Method for Reactor Calculations

Appendix 1 Thermal Hydraulics, Draft for Comment

Several different fuel failure criteria have been used in previously NRC-sponsored SFP accident studies. Benjamin, et. al. used the onset of runaway fuel clad oxidation as the fuel failure criterion in NUREG/CR-0649 [Ref. 1]. This criterion was criticized because clad rupture can occur at a relatively low temperature causing a gap release. The consequences of gap release can be significant if t...

High-Order, Multidimensional, and Conservative Coarse-Fine Interpolation for Adaptive Mesh Refinement

The author presents a polynomial-based algorithm for high-order multidimensional interpolation at the coarse-fine interface in the context of adaptive mesh refinement on structured Cartesian grids. The proposed algorithm reduces coarse-fine interpolation to matrix-vector products by exploiting the static mesh geometry and a family of nonsingularity-preserving stencil transformations. As such, n...