Paper R E V I E W

Coupled Neutronics and

Thermal-Hydraulics
Simulations
Using Monte Carlo and CFD
Volkan Seker, Justin W. Thomas and Thomas J. Downar
Purdue University
Nuclear Engineering Building
400 Central Drive West Lafayette, IN,47907
vseker@ecn.purdue.edu ; jthomas@anl.gov ; downar@ecn.purdue.edu

Presented by : Dinan Andiwijayakusuma, S.Si

 Major Work

A major part of the work was to develop and

implement methods to update the cross
section library with the temperature distribution
calculated by STAR-CD for every region

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 Decription the Work


MCNP --> was used to simulate the transport of
neutrons through the system
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STAR-CD --> solves the 3-D momentum and
energy transport equations

NJOY --> Generated Cross Sections Data using
data from CFD solution

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 Interface

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Written by FORTRAN90 with utilized two PERL
script
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Execute MCNP (output : “mcnp2star.dat”)
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Execute STAR-CD (output : “star2mcnp.dat”)
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Rewritten “xsdir” with new generation cross-
section identifiers,temperatures, library names
dan library paths.
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The Script running until the Eigen Value and
flux are convergen
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 Initialization

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Stand alone CFD run with input initial power
profile --> to obtain initial temperature distribution
for MCNP cross-section library
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MCNP run with standard library to obtain inital
source

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 Iterative Process

The iterative calculation :


MCNP (input power) --> output power distribution
--> mcnp2star.dat
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STAR-CD (read mcnp2star.dat) --> output
temperature,density and volume each cell -->
star2mcnp.dat
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NJOY (read star2mcnp.dat) --> generate new CS
library --> update MCNP input (new density & new
temperature)
Proses
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tsb berulang (iteratif) sd tercapai keadaan konvergen
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 Iterative Process

Proses tsb berulang (iteratif) sd tercapai keadaan konvergen

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 Three Techniques for updating
Cross Section

Terkait dengan “Major Works” untuk update

Cross-Section, maka ada 3 teknik/pendekatan :

Perform ENJOY calculation for each nuclide in
each region
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Pre-generate a library for each nuclide with
small temperature increment (2K - 5K)

Pre-generate a library for each nuclide with
larger temperature increment (25K - 50K)
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 Result
GEOMETRY

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 Result
CFD MESHING

Arah Axial : Tinggi
240cm di-diskritisasi
menjadi 600 layer, shg
masing2 layer 0.4cm

Arah Radial di
diskritisasi sama utk
masing2 layer,yaitu
2240 cells

Total cells : 600x2240=
1.344.000 CFD cells
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 Result
MCNP MESHING

Azimuthal meshing =
8mesh

Axial meshing = 12mesh

Jumlah total MCNP cells:
6720 with tallies
performed dalam 1920
cells pada daerah fuel

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 Result


Computing run-time for a single MCNP :
siklus aktif = 300,
neutron per-siklus = 500.000 neutron
running on cluster 30 nodes (spek PC: 3GHz
Pentium 4 Processors RAM 2GB)
dibutuhkan waktu 6 jam
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Untuk total 12 iterasi dibutuhkan 100 jam

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 Result

Perbandingan Hasil MCNP dengan DeCART Code*) :


Percobaan I, dengan distribusi suhu konstan (300oC)
diperoleh hasil :


Terdapat selisih MCNP lebih besar 74pcm
*) deterministic transport code
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 Result

Perbandingan Hasil MCNP-STARCD (McStar)

dengan DeCART/STARC-D Code*) :

Percobaan II, dengan distribusi variable suhu diperoleh :


Terdapat selisih McStar lebih besar 66pcm, perbedaannya
tidak terlalu jauh dengan kasus suhu konstan
*) deterministic transport code
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 Result

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 Result

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 Result


Perbedaan hasil eigen-value utk harga k-eff :
Case I -->Temperature constant : 74 pcm
Case II --> Variable temperature : 64pcm

Perbedaan hasil Power Density :
Case I -->Temperature constant : 3,2%
Case II --> Variable temperature : 4%

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 Conclusion


Secara umum Coupling MCNP-CFD sangat
baik, namun karena waktu komputasi yang
sangat lama, maka metode ini belum bisa
menggantikan coupling Deterministik DeCART-
CFD.

Metode Coupling MCNP-CFD ini bisa
digunakan sebagai audit-tools untuk verifikasi
hasil perhitungan dengan metode deterministik
pada kasus-kasus yang lebih spesifik.
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 Future Works

Dengan pertimbangan akurasi tinggi pada metode

coupling MCNP-CFD namun dengan waktu
komputasi yang lama, maka :

Perlu dikembangkan metode yang bisa
mempercepat waktu komputasinya, misal
dengan teknik variance reduction

Infrastruktur komputasi yang mampu menunjang
sehingga diperoleh waktu komputasi yang cepat

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 Terkait dengan USPEN 2010


Mempelajari requirement input masing2 SW (Neutronik--
>mis:MCNP & TH-->mis:COBRA)

Mempelajari output yang dihasilkan masing2 SW (Neutronik--
>mis:MCNP & TH-->mis:COBRA)
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Mempelajari teknik update cross-section, yaitu
1. Mempelajari teknik NJOY mengenerate library cross-
section data
2.Mempelajari penyiapan library cross-section data secara
manual dengan kenaikan suhu tertentu

Mempelajari teknik komunikasi data yang memungkinkan
untuk ketiga komponen tsb
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 Terkait dengan USPEN
MCNP Input :
1. Geometry Properties MCNP Output :
Neutron Fluks Distribution
2. Material Properties
(Converted to Power Distribution)
3. Source Card
4. Tally Card

CFD (FLUENT) read MCNP output

Power Distribution as Heat Source

New Cross-Section sebagai bagian input dari CFD(FLUENT)

Library Data

CFD output :
Temperature and density of every cells.
This data used to update cross-section

requires a mesh mapping or interpolation scheme between the meshes used in

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 Output

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 NEXT STEP

SP 1 :
 
SP 2 :
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NEUTRONIK 
THERMALHYDRAULIC

SP-4 :
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
INTERFACE TO INTEGRATED

SP-3 :
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
GENERATE CROSS-SECTION
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 CLOSING

Any Suggest..???

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