Air-water hydraulics modeling for a Mark-22 fuel assembly with RELAP5
Creators
- 1. Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (USA)
- 2. Engineering Software Consultants (USA)
Description
The RELAP5/MOD2.5 computer program is being used to simulate hypothetical loss-of-coolant accidents in the SRS production reactors. Because of their unique geometry and thermal-hydraulic design these reactors pose a significant challenge to the simulation capability of RELAP5. This paper focuses on one aspect of the LOCA simulations, air-water flow through the fuel assemblies. Deficiencies in the RELAP5 treatment of wall friction and interfacial friction are described along with proposals to extend these models to encompass the Savannah River Site reactor fuel assembly hydraulics. A modeling technique to allow RELAP5 to reproduce experimentally observed weir flow at the fuel assembly inlet is also described
Availability note (English)
MF available from INIS under the Report Number; OSTI as DE91009323; NTIS; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 13 p.
- Report number
- WSRC-MS--90-205
Conference
- Title
- 1990 joint RELAP5 and TRAC-BWR international user seminar.
- Dates
- 17-21 Sep 1990.
- Place
- Chicago, IL (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22056210
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AIR; COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DRAG; F CODES; FLOW MODELS; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; FUEL CHANNELS; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; INTERFACES; LOSS OF COOLANT; R CODES; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR CORES; REACTOR START-UP; SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT; SPECIAL PRODUCTION REACTORS; TWO-PHASE FLOW; WATER
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUID FLOW; FLUIDS; GASES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PRODUCTION REACTORS; REACTOR CHANNELS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; SIMULATION; START-UP; US AEC; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract AC09-89SR18035
- Funding organization
- USDOE, Washington, DC (USA).
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-9009219--8.