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19–22 Apr 2022
Vienna, Austria
Europe/Vienna timezone
FR22 starts in Vienna 19 - 22 April 2022 Online Stream: https://event.do/iaea/a/#/events/5048

Simulation of fission gas release in the 3-D fuel performance code OFFBEAT

22 Apr 2022, 13:30
12m
Vienna, Austria

Vienna, Austria

ORAL Track 6. Modelling, Simulations, and Digitilization 6.6 Fuel Performance and Material Modelling

Speaker

Carlo Fiorina (EPFL, Switzerland)

Description

The OpenFOAM Fuel BEhavior Analysis Tool, i.e. OFFBEAT, is a research-oriented multi-dimensional fuel behavior solver under development at the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour at the EPFL and at the Paul Scherrer Institut, in Switzerland. OFFBEAT relies upon the C++ library OpenFOAM and it aims to be a complement to traditional fuel performance codes for the study of 2D and 3D complex phenomena occurring in fuel rods. Although initially developed for light water reactors, the tool displays a wide flexibility and work is ongoing on its extension to Fast Reactor applications. Among various ongoing developments, this paper presents the integration in OFFBEAT of an accurate fission gas release model. The implementation presented in this report is based on the 0-D inert gas behavior code SCIANTIX, developed at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and designed to be coupled with fuel performance codes. The correct implementation of this fission gas release model in OFFBEAT is assessed with validation tests, using experimental data from the International Fuel Performance Experiments (IFPE) database.

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Speaker's email address carlo.fiorina@epfl.ch
Country/Int. organization Switzerland
Affiliation/Organization EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Primary authors

Ms Audrey Gianesello (Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon) Mr Alessandro Scolaro (EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) Carlo Fiorina (EPFL, Switzerland)

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