2023
DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2023.2175596
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Coupling of CTF and RELAP5-3D Within an Enhanced-Fidelity Nuclear Power Plant Simulator

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“…To investigate the impact of a reduced lateral flow area in the TRACE LBLOCA model, the radial and azimuthal flow area fractions in the core were reduced from 1.0 to 0.249, which is the fraction of the lateral flow area not obstructed by fuel rods across a given plane of fuel rods in an assembly. This is consistent with the flow area reduction assumed in the previous CTF study (Wysocki, Salko, & Arshavsky, 2023).…”
Section: Radial Flow Area Sensitivitysupporting
confidence: 92%
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“…To investigate the impact of a reduced lateral flow area in the TRACE LBLOCA model, the radial and azimuthal flow area fractions in the core were reduced from 1.0 to 0.249, which is the fraction of the lateral flow area not obstructed by fuel rods across a given plane of fuel rods in an assembly. This is consistent with the flow area reduction assumed in the previous CTF study (Wysocki, Salko, & Arshavsky, 2023).…”
Section: Radial Flow Area Sensitivitysupporting
confidence: 92%
“…In the previous subsection, the radial and azimuthal flow area were set to 1.0, to allow for the maximum transport of mass, momentum, and energy laterally across the core regions without consideration of flow obstruction from fuel rods and guide tubes. However, a past study with the CTF code found that a reduced lateral flow area accounting for the presence of fuel rods and guide tubes produces better agreement between nodal (quarter-assembly) and subchannel-resolved CTF models (Wysocki, Salko, & Arshavsky, 2023). A reduced lateral flow area was therefore recommended for use in the nodal model that is equal to the sum of the lateral flow areas in the rod-to-rod gaps among the constituent subchannels.…”
Section: Radial Flow Area Sensitivitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this coupling, RELAP5-3D [15] has been coupled to CTF and NESTLE [35] to model the neutronics and core thermal-hydraulics [36]. The platform 3KEYMASTER is used to couple the NESTLE model to the CTF model at the nodal level to balance run time with accuracy.…”
Section: Ctf and Relap5-3dmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…• The time-step correction due to pressure change is obtained by applying Equation 2. 36, where dP max,0 is the maximum pressure change at the previous time-step and dP max,i is the maximum pressure change at the current time-step.…”
Section: Iterations Convergence and Time-step Sizementioning
confidence: 99%