CorTAF2.0核热耦合及杂质沉积模块开发及初步应用

Development and Preliminary Application of CorTAF2.0 Neutronic Thermal-hydraulic Coupling Analysis and Corrosion Deposition

  • 摘要: 核反应堆堆芯中存在复杂的多物理场耦合作用机制。传统核反应堆堆芯分析方法无法满足高保真、多模型计算需求,而跨平台计算存在数据传递失真、计算效率低下、分析尺度不兼容等问题。本文基于压水堆全堆芯通道级热工水力程序CorTAF,针对堆芯核热耦合与杂质沉积现象,分别构建并植入中子扩散方程和杂质沉积及热阻模型,形成具有核热耦合和杂质沉积模块的CorTAF2.0程序。结合标准题和实验数据开展模型验证。基于该程序分别进行压水堆全堆芯核热耦合及杂质沉积模拟,获得了中子通量分布、功率分布和包壳杂质沉积结垢量分布,拓展了CorTAF程序对中子物理和长期运行条件下杂质沉积的分析能力。本文工作对压水堆全堆芯多物理场耦合分析具有借鉴和参考意义。

     

    Abstract: There is a complex multi-physical field coupling mechanism in the core of nuclear reactor. For example, the power distribution of the nuclear reactor is a very important parameter, the power of the core is determined by the fission power of the fuel, and the fission power is closely related to the distribution of neutron flux. In order to accurately obtain the core power, it is necessary to establish a neutron diffusion and fuel cross section model to realize the coupling of physical and thermal parameters, which is called neutronic thermal-hydraulic coupling analysis. There is a danger of impurity deposition on the cladding surface of a nuclear reactor during long-term operation, which will increase the surface temperature of the cladding and endanger the safety of the reactor. In order to accurately obtain the thermal parameters of the reactor core under long-term operation, it is necessary to establish a deposition model and couple with the thermal parameters. The above coupled physical fields are very common in reactors, but the traditional nuclear reactor core analysis method cannot meet the requirements of high fidelity and multi-model calculation, and there are some problems in cross-platform computing, such as data transmission distortion, low calculation efficiency, analysis scale incompatibility and so on. In this paper, based on the full core channel level three-dimensional thermal-hydraulic characteristics analysis code CorTAF developed by the team, the model of core thermal coupling and impurity deposition was established and implanted into the CorTAF code, which expands the calculation function and forms the CorTAF2.0 version. Relying on the OpenFOAM, CorTAF2.0 not only can be used in the thermal-hydraulic calculation and analysis of the whole core channel level, but also has the ability to calculate and analyze the neutronic thermal-hydraulic coupling in the core channel level and the impurity deposition in the core channel level under long-term operation. The neutronic thermal-hydraulic coupling module can calculate the neutron flux distribution and power distribution in the whole core by solving the neutron diffusion equation. The sediment calculation model and thermal resistance model were constructed in the impurity deposition module, which can obtain the scale distribution of impurity deposition in the whole core and the thermal-hydraulic influence after deposition, and the two modules were verified by benchmark questions and experiments. The work of this paper is of reference and reference significance for the coupling analysis of multi-physical fields in the whole core of PWR.

     

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