TY - GEN
T1 - Coupled Monte Carlo and Thermal-Hydraulics Modeling of a Prismatic Gas Reactor Fuel Assembly Using Cardinal
AU - Novak, A. J.
AU - Andrs, D.
AU - Shriwise, P.
AU - Shaver, D.
AU - Romano, P. K.
AU - Merzari, E.
AU - Keutelian, P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Cardinal is a MOOSE application that couples OpenMC Monte Carlo transport and NekRS computational fluid dynamics to the MOOSE framework, closing the neutronics and thermal-fluid gaps in conducting tightly-coupled, high-resolution multiscale and multiphysics analyses. By leveraging MOOSE's interfaces for wrapping external codes, Cardinal overcomes many challenges encountered in earlier multiphysics coupling works, such as file-based I/O or overly-restrictive geometry mapping requirements. In this work, we leverage a subset of the multiphysics interfaces in Cardinal to perform coupling of OpenMC neutron transport, MOOSE heat conduction, and THM thermal-fluids for steady-state modeling of a prismatic gas reactor fuel assembly.
AB - Cardinal is a MOOSE application that couples OpenMC Monte Carlo transport and NekRS computational fluid dynamics to the MOOSE framework, closing the neutronics and thermal-fluid gaps in conducting tightly-coupled, high-resolution multiscale and multiphysics analyses. By leveraging MOOSE's interfaces for wrapping external codes, Cardinal overcomes many challenges encountered in earlier multiphysics coupling works, such as file-based I/O or overly-restrictive geometry mapping requirements. In this work, we leverage a subset of the multiphysics interfaces in Cardinal to perform coupling of OpenMC neutron transport, MOOSE heat conduction, and THM thermal-fluids for steady-state modeling of a prismatic gas reactor fuel assembly.
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U2 - 10.13182/PHYSOR22-37578
DO - 10.13182/PHYSOR22-37578
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85184960150
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022
SP - 1430
EP - 1439
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022
PB - American Nuclear Society
T2 - 2022 International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2022
Y2 - 15 May 2022 through 20 May 2022
ER -