NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, Volume. 46, Issue 6, 060603(2023)

Application of SARAX code system on the calculation of complex unstructured geometry core

Bowen XIAO1, Youqi ZHENG1、*, Yongping WANG1, Liang QIAO2, Yushan TAO2, and Xiaoyue LIU1
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  • 1Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
  • 2Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu 610041, China
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    Figures & Tables(12)
    Arbitrary triangular prism in (x, y)
    Equilateral triangular prism in (x′, y′)
    Mesh generation of unstructured geometry (a) Heat pipe reactor, (b) Space reactor
    Diagram of the radial core layout of ACMIR
    Diagram of mesh generation of radial core
    Radial power distribution of fuel assembly
    Raidal layout of heat pipe core
    Radial modeling (a) and mesh generation (b) of heat pipe core
    Radial power distribution of fuel assembly
    • Table 1. The keff results of ACRIM

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      Table 1. The keff results of ACRIM

      NECP-MCXSARAX

      偏差

      Deviation / 10-3

      keff1.022 88(±0.000 04)1.025 852.97
    • Table 2. The keff results

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      Table 2. The keff results

      NECP-MCXSARAX

      偏差

      Deviation/ 10-3

      keff1.043 66(±0.000 04)1.044 951.29
    • Table 3. Parallel performance of model A and model B

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      Table 3. Parallel performance of model A and model B

      核数

      Nuclear number

      模型A Model A模型B Model B

      计算时间

      Computation time / s

      计算效率

      Computational efficiency / %

      计算时间

      Computation time / s

      计算效率

      Computational efficiency / %

      11 203.94100.001 621.2100.00
      2465.3676.7599.9367.60
      4836.4868.7650.7966.50
      9621.4858.3828.4659.34
      14416.3251.2320.8154.10
      19214.7242.6017.3548.67
      24013.0538.4416.2441.59
      31211.9032.4314.2436.49
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    Bowen XIAO, Youqi ZHENG, Yongping WANG, Liang QIAO, Yushan TAO, Xiaoyue LIU. Application of SARAX code system on the calculation of complex unstructured geometry core[J]. NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, 2023, 46(6): 060603

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Oct. 9, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jul. 5, 2023

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    DOI:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2023.hjs.46.060603

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