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http://dx.doi.org/10.5516/NET.2010.42.3.279

DEVELOPMENT AND PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL THERMAL HYDRAULICS CODE, CUPID  

Jeong, Jae-Jun (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
Yoon, Han-Young (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
Park, Ik-Kyu (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
Cho, Hyoung-Kyu (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI))
Lee, Hee-Dong (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.42, no.3, 2010 , pp. 279-296 More about this Journal
Abstract
For the analysis of transient two-phase flows in nuclear reactor components, a three-dimensional thermal hydraulics code, named CUPID, has been developed. The CUPID code adopts a two-fluid, three-field model for two-phase flows, and the governing equations were solved over unstructured grids, which are very useful for the analysis of flows in complicated geometries. To obtain numerical solutions, the semi-implicit numerical method for the REALP5 code was modified for an application to unstructured grids, and it has been further improved for enhanced accuracy and fast running. For the verification of the CUPID code, a set of conceptual problems and experiments were simulated. This paper presents the flow model, the numerical solution method, and the results of the preliminary assessment.
Keywords
Multi-dimensional Two-phase Flow; Transient Analysis; Two-fluid Three-field Model; Unstructured Grids; Verification; The CUPID Code;
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