SHARP Supporting Elements
During this quarter, the framework team was involved in two primary efforts, mesh generation and implementation of a MOAB-based coupled multi-physics simulation. For mesh generation, finishing touches were put on three major, high-complexity hexahedral meshes, and support was provided for their use in various simulations:
- MATiS-H, an OECD-NEA experiment for single-phase flow over a rod bundle and grid. [ANL]
- Nuscale, a hexahedral mesh of the core internals of the Multi-Application Small Light Water Reactor, a 1/3-scale mockup of the Nuscale reactor. [ANL]
- XX09, a high-fidelity model of the XX09 test fuel assembly used in the EBR-II Shutdown Heat Removal Test experiments. [ANL]
These meshes each had 500,000-1,500,000 elements and geometric complexity that exceeds that of any other reactor simulations done recently under NEAMS. In the area of coupled multi-physics analysis, a coupled Nek5000- Proteus simulation tool was implemented, based on MOAB’s solution transfer and a new Coupé coupled multi-physics driver. The tool was used to demonstrate parallel, coupled analysis of a simple seven-pin reactor assembly, and it is currently being applied to the XX09 model described above. [ANL]
Q3, 2012
