This report investigates the steps of a one-way coupling between two simulation codes developed by Wesinghouse Electric Sweden AB. The Westinghouse POLCA8 is a three dimensional steady-state diffusion theory code used for simulating the neutronic, thermal and hydraulic behavior of a reactor core. In the thermal-hydraulic module of the code, each fuel assembly is simulated as a one-dimensional channel, accounting for axial variations of the fuel geometry. While sufficient for many applications, the one-dimensional thermal-hydraulic approach may lack spatial resolution in the case of tilted radial power, very inhomogeneous fuel lattices or for specific calculations such as CHF (Critical Heat Flux) in PWR [3]. This limitation will b avoided by performing a code coupling with the sub-channel analysis code, VIPRE-W, to obtain the radial distribution of thermal-hydraulic parameters for each fuel assembly. In this thesis the codes are one-way coupled . To be able to do a coupling an interface is needed, and this has been created in Matlab. In the interface, the output from POLCA8 is converted into a form suitable to use as an input to VIPRE-W. As an important first step in the coupling process, I have first analyzed how consistent the codes are when simulating the simplest thermal conditions inside the core. To be able to do the comparison,all values extracted from the sub-channel analysis code VIPRE-W must be converted into assembly-average-values, this is also done in the interface. The thermal-hydraulic parameters that have been analyzed and compared in the two codes are; mass flux, quality and void.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-393517 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Castellanos Alvarez, Larisa |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Tillämpad kärnfysik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | UPTEC F, 1401-5757 ; 19049 |
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