Benchmark simulation code for the thermal-hydraulics design tool of the accelerator-driven system: validation and benchmark simulation of flow behavior around the beam window.

A detailed computational fluid dynamics code named JAEA Utility Program for Interdisciplinary Thermal-hydraulics Engineering and Research (JUPITER) for the thermal-hydraulics around the beam window (BW) of accelerator-driven system (ADS) was used to confirm the validity of the thermal-hydraulics design tool based on the ANSYS Fluent. The Fluent uses the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) model and can quickly calculate the turbulent flow around the BW as a BW design tool. First, the results of JUPITER were compared with the experimental results using a mock-up BW system in water to confirm the validity of JUPITER. This study confirmed that the numerical results are in good agreement with the experimental results. Thus, JUPITER could be used as a benchmark code. A benchmark simulation for the Fluent calculation was also performed using validated JUPITER to demonstrate the applicability of JUPITER as an alternative for experiments. Therefore, the mean values around the BW agreed with each other (e.g. the mean velocity profile for the stream and horizontal directions). Therefore, results confirmed that JUPITER demonstrated a good performance in validating the thermal-hydraulics design tool as a fluid dynamics solver. Moreover, Fluent has sufficient accuracy as a thermal-hydraulics design tool for the ADS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]