Analysis of pressurized water reactor pin-by-pin homogenization

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Abstract

Homogenization performances for pin cells in 2D geometry are analyzed in order to facilitate pin-by-pin core calculation. There are different choices for spatial homogenization, energy homogenization and the corresponding core calculation methods. Two spatial homogenization methods were investigated including the generalized equivalence theory (GET) and the super-homogenization (SPH) method. Energy groups were condensed from the 69 WTMS-D4 structure to either 2 or 7 together with spatial homogenization. Both P1 and SP3 were employed as pin-homogenized core calculation methods. The pin-homogenized core calculation results were compared with the original heterogeneous core calculation. In addition, the traditional two-step calculation with assembly homogenization and pin-power reconstruction was employed as a comparison. The numerical results revealed encouraging conclusions. (1) The pin-by-pin calculation scheme can provide more accurate results than the traditional two-step calculation. (2) Different spatial homogenization techniques can provide results with similar accuracy. (3) Energy groups has to be increased together with spatial homogenization zone refinement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPhysics of Reactors 2016, PHYSOR 2016
Subtitle of host publicationUnifying Theory and Experiments in the 21st Century
PublisherAmerican Nuclear Society
Pages4068-4079
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781510825734
StatePublished - 2016
EventPhysics of Reactors 2016: Unifying Theory and Experiments in the 21st Century, PHYSOR 2016 - Sun Valley, United States
Duration: 1 May 20165 May 2016

Publication series

NamePhysics of Reactors 2016, PHYSOR 2016: Unifying Theory and Experiments in the 21st Century
Volume6

Conference

ConferencePhysics of Reactors 2016: Unifying Theory and Experiments in the 21st Century, PHYSOR 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySun Valley
Period1/05/165/05/16

Keywords

  • Generalized equivalence Theory
  • Homogenization
  • Pin-by-pin
  • SPH

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