RELAP/SCDAPSIM

MODELING • Control system components to build

CONCEPTS powerful control logic and
ADVANCED FLUID SYSTEMS ANALYSIS computations
o Control components can operate on

any time-advanced quantity
• Detailed system thermal including other control variables
hydraulics for fluid systems and o Basic functions available for control
reactors systems
o Multi-dimensional fluid transport § Constant (Yi = S)
o Heat conduction in structures § Addition or Subtraction (Yi = S(Ao +
A1V1 + A2V2 ….)
o Heat conduction, melting (including
§ Multiplication (Yi = S1V1V2)
molten pool natural circulation) in § Division (Yi = S/V1 or S1(V1/V2)
porous materials § Integer Exponentiation (Yi = SV1i)
o Control systems § Real Exponentiation (Yi = SV1r)
• System hydrodynamic solution § Variable Exponentiation (Yi = SV1v)
§ Table lookup
uses engineering transport § Integration
approach § Differentiation
o Two fluid, non-equibrium • Powerful user options
conservation equations – liquid, o Integrated uncertainty analysis
vapor/non-condensable gases o Hydrodynamic loads analysis
o Mass, energy, momentum o Integrated, interactive 3D GUI
o Thermodynamic state for fluids
§ H2O, D2O, Pb-Bi, Li-Pb, molten 1500

1400

salts, oil, non-condensable gases

1300

1200

1100

§ Other fluids easily added as

Temperature (K)

1000

900

needed
800

700

600

o Constitutive relationships for heat, 500

400

mass transfer developed through

300

950 1000 1050 1100 1150 1200 1250 1300 1350 1400 1450 1500 1550 1600 1650 1700
Time (s)

international research programs

• System structures can be modeled

with multi-D models

o Slab, cylindrical, spherical structures
o Porous media – used to model 2D
structures, pebble beds
§ Convective heat removal (RELAP5
boundary condition)
§ Chemical reactions

§ Heat conduction

§ Melting with in. nat. circulation


 SPECIALIZED REACTOR MODELS AND • BWR control components use 3D
CORRELATIONS models to predict temperature
(r,z), deformation, chemical
• Point and 3D reactor kinetics interactions and melting

• Shroud component include heat

• Fuel and severe accident models conduction, oxidation, and melt
and correlations relocation models
• SCDAP core components used to
define representative assemblies

• Fuel rod components use 2D
models to predict temperature
(r,z), deformation, chemical
interactions and melting

• Fuel rod simulator components
use special electrically-heater
models plus fuel rod model
• Control rod components use 2D
models to predict temperature • Material properties are contained
(r,z), deformation, chemical in an easily modifiable separate
interactions and melting materials library