• Title of article

    IntegrateddesignapproachofthepebbleBeDmodularreactorusingmodelsOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    PieterJ.Venter، نويسنده , , MarkN.Mitchell، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    1341
  • To page
    1353
  • Abstract
    Thepebblebedmodularreactor(PBMR)isthefirstpebblebedreactorthatwillbeutilisedinahightemperaturedirectBraytoncycleconfiguration.ThisimpliesthatthereareanumberofuniquefeaturesinthePBMRthatextendfromtheGermanexperiencebase.OneofthechallengesinthedesignofthePBMRisdevelopinganunderstandingoftheexpectedbehaviourofthereactorthroughanalysesandsimulationsandmanagingtheintegrateddesignprocessbetweenthedesigners,thephysicistsandtheanalysts. Thisintegrateddesignprocessismanagedthroughmodel-baseddevelopmentwork.Three-dimensionalCADmodelsareconstructedofthecomponentsandpartsinthereactor.FromtheCADmodels,CFDmodels,neutronicmodels,shieldingmodels,FEMmodelsandotherthermodynamicmodelsarederived.Thesemodelsrangefromverysimplemodelstoextremelydetailedandcomplexmodels.Themodelsareusedinlegacysoftwareaswellascommercialoff-the-shelfsoftware.Thedifferentmodelsarealsousedincode-to-codecomparisonstoverifytheresults. Thispaperwillbrieflydiscussthedifferentmodelsandtheinteractionbetweenthemodels,andhowthemodelsareusedintheiterativedesignprocessthatisusedinthedevelopmentofthereactoratPBMR.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    941394