Input Calibration and Validation of RELAP5 Against CIRCUS-IV Single Channel Tests on Natural Circulation Two-Phase Flow Instability
Joint Authors
Kudinov, Pavel
Phung, Viet-Anh
Grishchenko, Dmitry
Rohde, Martin
Source
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-08-26
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Abstract EN
RELAP5 is a system thermal-hydraulic code that is used to perform safety analysis on nuclear reactors.
Since the code is based on steady state, two-phase flow regime maps, there is a concern that RELAP5 may provide significant errors for rapid transient conditions.
In this work, the capability of RELAP5 code to predict the oscillatory behavior of a natural circulation driven, two-phase flow at low pressure is investigated.
The simulations are compared with a series of experiments that were performed in the CIRCUS-IV facility at the Delft University of Technology.
For this purpose, we developed a procedure for calibration of the input and code validation.
The procedure employs (i) multiple parameters measured in different regimes, (ii) independent consideration of the subsections of the loop, and (iii) assessment of importance of the uncertain input parameters.
We found that predicted system parameters are less sensitive to variations of the uncertain input and boundary conditions in high frequency oscillations regime.
It is shown that calculation results overlap experimental values, except for the high frequency oscillations regime where the maximum inlet flow rate was overestimated.
This finding agrees with the idea that steady state, two-phase flow regime maps might be one of the possible reasons for the discrepancy in case of rapid transients in two-phase systems.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Phung, Viet-Anh& Kudinov, Pavel& Grishchenko, Dmitry& Rohde, Martin. 2015. Input Calibration and Validation of RELAP5 Against CIRCUS-IV Single Channel Tests on Natural Circulation Two-Phase Flow Instability. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1076623
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Phung, Viet-Anh…[et al.]. Input Calibration and Validation of RELAP5 Against CIRCUS-IV Single Channel Tests on Natural Circulation Two-Phase Flow Instability. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1076623
American Medical Association (AMA)
Phung, Viet-Anh& Kudinov, Pavel& Grishchenko, Dmitry& Rohde, Martin. Input Calibration and Validation of RELAP5 Against CIRCUS-IV Single Channel Tests on Natural Circulation Two-Phase Flow Instability. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1076623
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1076623