Current status and future direction of full-scale vibration simulator for entire nuclear power plants

Uzawa, Ken; Watanabe, Tadashi; Nishida, Akemi  ; Suzuki, Yoshio   ; Takemiya, Hiroshi

The Center for Computational Science and E-systems (CCSE) has been promoting researches and developments for the full-scale 3D vibration simulator of an entire nuclear power plant, which is a virtual plant vibration simulator on inter-connected supercomputers. Application example of the vibration simulator to High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) and recent progress of collaborative work for JST-CREST program "Multiscale and multiphysics earthquake-proof simulation" are shown. This year, we started to implement the analysis capability of fluid effects to the vibration simulator. We have presented a two-phase flow model for analyzing a sloshing and suggested importance of turbulent effect to estimate the flow impact on the structure more precisely.