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GeN-ROM-An OpenFOAM(R)-based multiphysics reduced-order modeling framework for the analysis of Molten Salt Reactors

German, Peter
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Tano, Mauricio
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Fiorina, Carlo  
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April 1, 2022
Progress In Nuclear Energy

This work presents a projection-based multiphysics Model Order Reduction (MOR) framework for the analysis of nuclear systems and its application to parametric simulations of Molten Salt Reactors (MSR). The framework, named GeN-ROM, is developed using OpenFOAM (R) and employs a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition aided Reduced-Basis technique (POD-RB). It can be used to reduce steady-state and transient multiphysics problems involving parametric fluid dynamics, heat exchange, and neutronics phenomena. For the treatment of structural elements in the hydraulic systems, a porous medium approach has been adopted. The reduction process is data-driven and snapshot information is extracted via POD to learn the solution manifold and to build global spatial basis functions. At the data collection phase, GeN-ROM makes use of the solvers available in GeNFoam, a similarly OpenFOAM (R)-based multiphysics framework developed for the analysis of nuclear reactors. The global bases are used both to approximate the solution fields and to project the full-order equations onto lower-dimensional subspaces, thus considerably reducing the number of unknowns in a numerical system. This reduction leads to significant computational speedups, which is ideal for multi-query applications such as uncertainty quantification or design optimization. The developed tool has been tested using a 2D multiphysics model of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) with steady-state and transient scenarios, with speedups on the order of 10 - 10(5).

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.pnucene.2022.104148
Web of Science ID

WOS:000787847600010

Author(s)
German, Peter
Tano, Mauricio
Fiorina, Carlo  
Ragusa, Jean C.
Date Issued

2022-04-01

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Published in
Progress In Nuclear Energy
Volume

146

Article Number

104148

Subjects

Nuclear Science & Technology

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model order reduction

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reduced-order model

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proper orthogonal decomposition

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multiphysics

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molten salt fast reactor

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openfoam

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navier-stokes

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reduction

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dynamics

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solver

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foam

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REVIEWED

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