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Abstract

Severe accidents in nuclear power plants may cause significant and long-lasting harm to the environment in the case of containment integrity loss. Numerical simulation of phenomena threatening containment integrity, e.g., hydrogen combustion and explosion, is essential for the effective severe accident management. International research projects and benchmarks are organized in order to promote improvement of simulation codes adequacy and accuracy in the severe accident relevant conditions. Results of the most recent benchmarks show that current state-of-the-art simulations were able to mostly reproduce the observable flame speed at the considered conditions, but there are still inadequacies in estimating velocity and its maximum value. Addressing a need for an accessible open source turbulent premixed combustion simulation tool, a new solver is being developed. An OpenFOAM version 7 based combustion solver called flameFoam has been built by implementing a progress variable approach and turbulent flame closure model for premixed combustion simulation. Turbulent flame speed is defined as a function of laminar flame speed and turbulence parameters, and is evaluated using one of three different correlations. Laminar flame speed can be set as a constant or calculated using a laminar flame speed correlation. The basis for the solver are standard compressible OpenFOAM solvers rhoPimpleFoam, buoyantPimpleFoam and chtMultiRegionFoam. The article presents initial public flameFoam version 0.8 and provides examples of its validation. Initial validation and verification of general solver features are represented by the simulations of shock tube and backward facing step cases. Solver capabilities in relation to the current turbulent premixed combustion modeling state-of-the-art are demonstrated with the simulations of ETSON-MITHYGENE benchmark experiments. It is shown that flameFoam version 0.8 is capable of adequate simulation of general flow features, turbulent compressible flow phenomena and turbulent premixed combustion of lean hydrogen-air mixtures at the considered conditions. Solver code is publicly hosted and being developed further.

Year of Publication
2021
Journal
Nuclear Engineering and Design
Volume
383
Number of Pages
10
Type of Article
Article
ISBN Number
0029-5493
Accession Number
WOS:000724947600001
Alternate Journal
Nucl Eng Des
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