Turbulence and heat transfer applied to HPC-related civil nuclear phenomena.

Introduction to Code_Saturne

Electricity generation is fundamentally a thermodynamic process. In a nuclear power plant, the prediction of fluid flow and heat transfer is of vital importance for the plant performance and for safety compliance. This course will focus on the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the prediction of fluid flow and heat transfer, including turbulence modelling, near wall modelling and conjugate heat transfer.

The course will run for 2 days being a mixture of lectures and tutorials for nuclear internal flows. The open-source HPC software Code_Saturne will be used by the participants to run large scale simulations using the UK national facility ARCHER.

This course is organised by the University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, EDF Energy and STFC Daresbury Laboratory, and has the support of the UKFN SIG - Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics.

Timetable

Wednesday 19th of June 2019  (C1 George Begg building):

09:00    Registration
09:30 RANS Modelling of turbulent flows
10:25 Near wall turbulence
11:20 Coffee break
11:35 Turbulent heat transfer modelling and applications
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Introduction to Code_Saturne
14:00 Tutorial: Laminar tube bundles using the GUI
15:30 HPC presentation and introduction to ARCHER
16:00 Tutorial: LES of tube bundles
17:30 End of day

Thursday 20th of June 2019 : Practical session in the computer cluster in George Begg

09:00 Tutorial: Post processing of LES results
09:30 Use of subroutines in Code_Saturne
10:00 Tutorial: LES of tube bundles using subroutines
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Tutorial: adding heat transfer
12:30 Lunch

      C2 George Begg building

13:30 LES/DNS and hybrid methods
14:20 Best practice guidelines and errors in CFD
15:00 Coffee break
15:15 Novel methods: Coarse CFD for nuclear applications
16:00 End of day and course

Location

The course will be held at University of Manchester; rooming as show in Timetable.

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