棒状氢化锆慢化钍基熔盐堆燃料组件稳态核热耦合程序开发

Research on Coupling of Neutronics and Thermal-hydraulics for Fuel Assembly of Thorium Molten Salt Reactor Moderated by Zirconium Hydride Rod

  • 摘要: 基于蒙特卡罗粒子输运程序MCNP与自主开发的子通道热工水力学程序SubTH,开发了棒状氢化锆慢化钍基熔盐堆燃料组件稳态核热耦合程序MCNP-SubTH,解决核热耦合程序因网格类型不同难以耦合的问题,程序具有普适性。MCNP-SubTH通过外耦合的方式进行MCNP和SubTH之间的数据交换,将MCNP计算得到的功率场加载到SubTH的求解文件中,然后将SubTH计算得到的密度和温度场更新到MCNP的输入卡中,实现程序迭代计算。分模块验证了MCNP-SubTH的准确性,并用MCNP-SubTH对棒状氢化锆慢化钍基熔盐堆燃料组件进行了稳态核热耦合计算,验证了核热耦合方法的有效性。

     

    Abstract: Based on Monte Carlo particle transport code MCNP and self-developed sub-channel thermal-hydraulic code SubTH, a code system MCNP-SubTH coupling neutronics with thermal-hydraulics was developed, which was suitable for steady state analysis for a thorium molten salt reactor moderated by zirconium hydride rod (ZrH-MSR). It solved the difficulties in the neutronics and thermal-hydraulics coupling code due to different mesh types, and has a general validity. MCNP-SubTH exchanged data between MCNP and SubTH by an external coupling. The power density field obtained from MCNP was provided as a SubTH solution file to give a user-specified source term, and then the density and temperature field from SubTH was updated and as a new MCNP input file by MCNP-SubTH to realize iterative calculation. The accuracy of MCNP-SubTH was verified by each relatively independent module. MCNP-SubTH application in the fuel assembly of ZrH-MSR was studied, and its validity was verified.

     

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