An Uncertainty Quantification of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Solution to the Modeling of the Contact Point in a Wire-Wrapped Fuel Assembly
An uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of the turbulent flow in a wire-wrapped pin bundle to the contact-point model and the inlet conditions is presented. Three geometries are considered in this work that are an infinitely large bundle (single subchannel with periodic boundary conditions in the stream-wisedirection), a 7-pin bundle and a 19-pin bundle. The response functions of this study are the friction factor, thevorticity and the mixing parameters. The results show that the friction factor is not sensitive to the contact-point model. The vorticity shows a strong dependency to the inclusion of prismatic layers near the wall boundaries. Results for the mixing parameters are inconclusive. A variance-based sensitivity analysis(Sobol indices) indicates that the influence of the contact-point model on the variance of the friction factor decreases when increasing the size of the bundle. Other response functions (vorticity and mixing parameters)show little sensitivity to the size of the bundle.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1484120
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2018/959
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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