1D BWR Nuclear Power Reactor Model to Study Thermal-hydraulic Oscillations

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ginestar, D.^{a; 1} | Verdú, G.^b

Affiliations: [a] Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, 14. 46022 Valencia, Spain | [b] Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Nuclear, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, 14. 46022 Valencia, Spain

Correspondence: [1] Corresponding author. Tel. 34-963877665. Fax. 34-963877669.

Abstract: A reduced model for a BWR nuclear power reactor is proposed to study oscillating instabilities taking place in this kind of reactors under certain conditions. With this model the stability of the solution is studied varying different parameters of the numerical discretization used for its integration.

Keywords: Nuclear reactors, linear stability, two phase flows, limit cycles, applications of PDEs

Keywords: 35Q80, 76T10, 37G15

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2003-3308

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 445-454, 2003