TY - JOUR
T1 - Liquid metal thermal hydraulics R&D at European scale: achievements and prospects
AU - Roelofs, Ferry
AU - Gerschenfeld, Antoine
AU - Van Tichelen, Katrien
N1 - Score=10
PY - 2021/5/30
Y1 - 2021/5/30
N2 - A significant role for a future nuclear carbon-free energy production is attributed to fast reactors, mostly employing a liquid metal as a coolant. This paper summarizes the efforts that have been undertaken in collaborative projects sponsored by the European Commission in the past 20 years in the fields of liquid-metal heat transfer modeling, fuel assembly and core thermal hydraulics, pool and system thermal hydraulics, and establishment of best practice guidelines and verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification (UQ). The achievements in these fields will be presented along with the prospects on topics which will be studied collaboratively in Europe in the years to come. These prospects include further development of heat transfer models for applied computational fluid dynamics (CFD), further analysis of the consequences of fuel assembly blockages on coolant flow and temperature, analysis of the thermal hydraulic effects in deformed fuel assemblies, extended validation of three-dimensional pool thermal hydraulic CFD models, and further development and validation of multi-scale system thermal hydraulic methods.
AB - A significant role for a future nuclear carbon-free energy production is attributed to fast reactors, mostly employing a liquid metal as a coolant. This paper summarizes the efforts that have been undertaken in collaborative projects sponsored by the European Commission in the past 20 years in the fields of liquid-metal heat transfer modeling, fuel assembly and core thermal hydraulics, pool and system thermal hydraulics, and establishment of best practice guidelines and verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification (UQ). The achievements in these fields will be presented along with the prospects on topics which will be studied collaboratively in Europe in the years to come. These prospects include further development of heat transfer models for applied computational fluid dynamics (CFD), further analysis of the consequences of fuel assembly blockages on coolant flow and temperature, analysis of the thermal hydraulic effects in deformed fuel assemblies, extended validation of three-dimensional pool thermal hydraulic CFD models, and further development and validation of multi-scale system thermal hydraulic methods.
KW - Liquid metal
KW - Thermal hydraulics
KW - Europe
UR - https://ecm.sckcen.be/OTCS/llisapi.dll/overview/48431382
U2 - 10.1007/s11708-021-0743-2
DO - 10.1007/s11708-021-0743-2
M3 - Special issue
SN - 2095-1701
VL - 15
SP - 842
EP - 853
JO - Frontiers in Energy Research
JF - Frontiers in Energy Research
ER -