An Improved One-and-a-Half Group BWR Core Simulator for a New-Generation Core Management System
An Improved One-and-a-Half Group BWR Core Simulator for a New-Generation Core Management System
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一种改进的新一代堆芯管理系统的半群沸水堆堆芯模拟器
DOI:
10.1080/18811248.2000.9714864
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
M. Yamamoto
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作者:
T. Iwamoto;M. Yamamoto
An improved one-and-a-half group core simulator method for a next-generation BWR core management system is presented. In the improved method, intranodal spectral index (thermal to fast flux ratio) is expanded with analytic solutions to the diffusion equation, and the nodal power density and the interface net current are calculated, taking the intranodal flux shape into consideration. A unique method was developed for assembly heterogeneity correction. Thus eliminating the insufficiencies of the conventional one-and-a-half group method, we can have accurate power distributions as well as local peaking factors for cores having large spectral mismatch between fuel assemblies. The historical effects of spectral mismatch are also considered in both nodal power and local peaking calculations. Although reflectors are not solved explicitly, there is essentially no need for core dependent adjustable parameters, since boundary conditions are derived in the same manner as in the interior nodes. Calculation time for nodal solutions is comparable to that for the conventional method, and is less than 1/10 of a few-group nodal simulator. Verifications of the present method were made by comparing the results with those obtained by heterogeneous fine-mesh multi-group core depletion calculations, and the accuracy was shown to be fairly good.