Published 2010
| Version v1
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Bond graph based coupled reactor simulations - 317
Creators
- 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA (United States)
- 2. Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Description
The bond graph formalism was first introduced to solve the multiphysics problem in electromechanical systems. Over the years, it has been used in many fields including nuclear engineering, but with limited scope due to its perceived impracticality in large systems. This paper introduces this not so well known formalism and presents results from an automated bond graph processing code that simplifies the solution of multiphysics problems. The bond graph of a fully coupled 1D heat transfer and neutron diffusion reactor is derived and the transient solution obtained from the proof-of-concept code is verified using a manufactured solution. (authors)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- American Nuclear Society - ANS
- Imprint Place
- La Grange Park, Illinois (United States)
- ISBN
- 978-0-89448-079-9
- Imprint Pagination
- 13 p.
Conference
- Title
- International Conference on Advances in Reactor physics to Power the Nuclear Renaissance
- Acronym
- PHYSOR 2010
- Dates
- 9-14 May 2010
- Place
- Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 42107422
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; NEUTRON DIFFUSION EQUATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; REACTOR CORES
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; SIMULATION
Optional Information
- Notes
- 8 refs.