TINTE is a well established reactor analysis code which models the transient behaviour of pebble bed reactor cores but it does not include the capabilities to model a power conversion unit (PCU). This raises the issue that TINTE cannot model full system transients. One way to overcome this problem is to supply TINTE with time-dependant thermal-hydraulic boundary conditions which are obtained from PCU simulations. This study investigates a method to provide boundary conditions for the nuclear code TINTE during full system transients. This was accomplished by creating a high level interface between the systems CFD code Flownex and TINTE. An indirect coupling method is explored whereby characteristics of the PCU are matched to characteristics of the nuclear core. This method eliminates the need to iterate between the two codes. A number of transients are simulated using the coupled code and then compared against stand-alone Flownex simulations. The coupling method introduces relatively small errors when reproducing mass flow, temperature and pressure in steady state analysis, but become more pronounced when dealing with fast thermal-hydraulic transients. Decreasing the maximum time step length of TINTE reduces this problem, but increases the computational time.
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Fourth International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology
September 28–October 1, 2008
Washington, DC, USA
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978-0-7918-4854-8
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Providing Thermal-Hydraulic Boundary Conditions to the Reactor Code TINTE Through a Flownex-TINTE Coupling
Deon Marais,
Deon Marais
North-West University, Potchefstroom, North-West, South Africa
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Gideon P. Greyvenstein
Gideon P. Greyvenstein
Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty.) Ltd., Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa
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Deon Marais
North-West University, Potchefstroom, North-West, South Africa
Gideon P. Greyvenstein
Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty.) Ltd., Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa
Paper No:
HTR2008-58110, pp. 449-457; 9 pages
Published Online:
July 1, 2009
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Marais, D, & Greyvenstein, GP. "Providing Thermal-Hydraulic Boundary Conditions to the Reactor Code TINTE Through a Flownex-TINTE Coupling." Proceedings of the Fourth International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology. Fourth International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology, Volume 1. Washington, DC, USA. September 28–October 1, 2008. pp. 449-457. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/HTR2008-58110
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