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ACCELERATED PARAMETERIZED COMPUTATION OF THE THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF DUAL PURPOSE CASKS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Matthias Roppel ,
Christopher Lange ,
Bernd Roith  and
Frank Rieg
Matthias Roppel*
Affiliation:
University of Bayreuth
Christopher Lange
Affiliation:
University of Bayreuth
Bernd Roith
Affiliation:
Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI
Frank Rieg
Affiliation:
University of Bayreuth
*
Roppel, Matthias Oliver, University of Bayreuth, Chair of Engineering Design and CAD, Germany, matthias.roppel@uni-bayreuth.de

Abstract

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One of the fundamental requirements for dual purpose casks, which are used for the transport and interim storage of spent fuel assemblies, is the safe removal of the resulting decay heat. To ensure this the temperature fields are determined using numerical methods. However, their modelling is complex and the computation time-consuming.

In order to accelerate this thermal assessment, we have developed z88ENSI, an independent simulation tool based on finite element analysis. With regard to the modelling, various parameters can be varied quickly with our newly designed mesh manipulation procedure. Concerning the computation time, we developed and implemented an approach for calculating three-dimensional temperature fields, based on an already existing two-dimensional method which lacked precision. We accelerate the calculation by using extended thermal gap constraints, which depict the thermal behaviour of the non-meshed, gas-filled gaps inside the cask. We validate the results of our calculation tool by comparing them with those generated with Ansys. The results of the comparison temperatures differ between −0.8% and 3.7%. The speedup of z88ENSI for the specific validation setting is between 6.9 and 15.0.

Keywords

Numerical methodsProduct modelling / modelsSimulation
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 1: ICED21 , August 2021 , pp. 313 - 322
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