Development of Steady Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis Code for China Advanced Research Reactor

A multi-channel model steady state thermalhydraulic analysis code was developed for China Advanced Research Reactor(CARR). By simulating the whole reactor core, the detailed flow distribution in the core was obtained. The result shows that the structure size plays the most important role in flow distribution and the influence of core power could be neglected under singlephase flow. The temperature field of fuel element under unsymmetrical cooling condition was also obtained, which is necessary for the further study such as stress analysis etc. of the fuel element. At the same time, considering the hot channel effect including engineering factor and nuclear factor, calculation of hot channel was carried out and it is proved that all thermal hydraulic parameters accord with the Safety Regulation of CARR.