Published September 5, 2012 | Version v1
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GTRF Calculations Using Hydra-TH (L3 Milestone THM.CFD.P5.05)

Creators

  • 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Description

This report describes the work carried out for completion of the Thermal Hydraulics Methods (THM) Level 3 Milestone THM.CFD.P5.05 for the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL). A series of body-fitted computational meshes have been generated by Numeca's Hexpress/Hybrid, a.k.a. 'Spider', meshing technology for the V5H 3 x 3 and 5 x 5 rod bundle geometries and subsequently used to compute the fluid dynamics of grid-to-rod fretting (GTRF). Spider is easy to use, fast, and automatically generates high-quality meshes for extremely complex geometries, required for the GTRF problem. Hydra-TH has been used to carry out large-eddy simulations on both 3 x 3 and 5 x 5 geometries, using different mesh resolutions. The results analyzed show good agreement with Star-CCM+ simulations and experimental data.

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1050493/;
DOI
10.2172/1050493;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
30 p.
Report number
LA-UR--12-24526

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
43127835
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
FUEL ELEMENT CLUSTERS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION; SIMULATION; THERMAL HYDRAULICS; WATER
Descriptors DEC
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; FLUID MECHANICS; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MECHANICS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; SIMULATION

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC52-06NA25396
Notes
doi 10.2172/1050493
Funding organization
DOE/LANL (United States)