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Baccou, J.*; Glantz, T.*; Ghione, A.*; Sargentini, L.*; Fillion, P.*; Damblin, G.*; Sueur, R.*; Iooss, B.*; Fang, J.*; Liu, J.*; et al.
Nuclear Engineering and Design, 421, p.113035_1 - 113035_16, 2024/05
In the Best-Estimate Plus Uncertainty (BEPU) framework, the use of best-estimate code requires to go through a Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification process (VVUQ). The relevance of the experimental data in relation to the physical phenomena of interest in the VVUQ process is crucial. Adequacy analysis of selected experimental databases addresses this problem. The outcomes of the analysis can be used to select a subset of relevant experimental data, to encourage designing new experiments or to drop some experiments from a database because of their substantial lack of adequacy. The development of a specific transparent and reproducible approach to analyze the relevance of experimental data for VVUQ still remains open and is the topic of this contribution. In this paper, the concept of adequacy initially introduced in the OECD/NEA SAPIUM (Systematic APproach for model Input Uncertainty quantification Methodology) activity is formalized. It is defined through two key properties, called representativeness and completeness, that allows considering the multifactorial dimension of the adequacy problem. A new systematic approach is then proposed to analyze the adequacy of a set of experimental databases. It relies on the introduction of two sets of criteria to characterize representativeness and completeness and on the use of multi-criteria decision analysis method to perform the analysis. Finally, the approach is applied in the framework of the new OECD/NEA ATRIUM activity which includes a set of practical IUQ exercises in thermal-hydraulics to test the SAPIUM guideline in determining input uncertainties and forward propagating them on an application case. It allows evaluating the adequacy of eight experimental databases coming from the Super Moby-dick, Sozzi-Sutherland and Marviken experiments and identifying the most adequate ones.
Mascari, F.*; Bersano, A.*; Woods, B. G.*; Reyes, J. N.*; Welter, K.*; 中村 秀夫; D'Auria, F.*
Proceedings of 19th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-19) (Internet), 16 Pages, 2022/03
Safety analyses have a key role for designing the mitigation strategies and for a safety review process, which are carried-out with best-estimate thermal-hydraulic system codes. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) adopting passive mitigation strategies under development are characterized by some common features with the current reactors and by other features typical of their designs. While many of Natural Circulation (NC) have been studied, further analyses are necessary to confirm the code capability against experimental data representative of SMR phenomenology. Though different scaling methods have been developed, distortions are unavoidable in the experimental facility design. Then, scaled-down facilities are limited in scaling-up capabilities, which may affect the capability of the code to predict full-scale behavior. Therefore, in a V&V process, uncertainty related to the code scaling-up capability is still an open issue. Since the OSU-MASLWR is scaled in volume and height, this paper aims to assess the scaling-up capability of the OSU-MASLWR Reactor Pressure Vessel nodalization against NC phenomenology typical of SMR, having the OSU-MASLWR-002 single phase NC data as a base. This may give some first insights about the TRACE scaling-up capability against single-phase NC in integral type configuration.
