Methods and Tools to allow molecular flow simulations to be coupled to higher level continuum descriptions of flows in porous/fractured media and aerosol/dust dynamics

Loyalka, Sudarshan¹ 

[1] Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)

关键词: AEROSOLS;    NUCLEAR FUELS;    MONTE CARLO METHOD;    FISSION PRODUCTS;    POROUS MATERIALS;    COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION;    TRANSPORT;    REACTOR ACCIDENTS;    ALGORITHMS;    DUSTS;    REACTORS;    SAFETY ANALYSIS;    CHEMISTRY;    RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION;    FLUID MECHANICS;    PROGRAMMING;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1201742
RP-ID  :  DOE/NEUP--10-964
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1201742
Others  :  Other: 10-964
Others  :  TRN: US1500410

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this project was to develop methods and tools that will aid in safety evaluation of nuclear fuels and licensing of nuclear reactors relating to accidents.The objectives were to develop more detailed and faster computations of fission product transport and aerosol evolution as they generally relate to nuclear fuel and/or nuclear reactor accidents. The two tasks in the project related to molecular transport in nuclear fuel and aerosol transport in reactor vessel and containment. For both the tasks, explorations of coupling of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo with Navier-Stokes solvers or the Sectional method were not successful. However, Mesh free methods for the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method were successfully explored.These explorations permit applications to porous and fractured media, and arbitrary geometries.The computations were carried out in Mathematica and are fully parallelized. The project has resulted in new computational tools (algorithms and programs) that will improve the fidelity of computations to actual physics, chemistry and transport of fission products in the nuclear fuel and aerosol in reactor primary and secondary containments.