Emerging Technologies for FETCH2

Emerging Technologies for FETCH2

Jeff Gomes

Applied Modelling and Computation Group(AMCG)

Severe Accident Subproject Meeting

14/11/2011

Outline

Multi-Physics Software Suite;

Next-Generation Multiphase Flow Dynamic core (synergy between projects within AMCG);

Emerging Multi-Physics Technologies.

AMCG: Multi-Physics Software Suite

Fluidity

(Multiphase)

EVENT (Radiation Transpot)

FETCH (coupled Multiphase and RT)

Fluidity-ICOM (CFD, single phase, multi-material)

Fluidity-Multiphase(CMFD)

VGeST (DEM, FEMDEM)

Radiant (RT)

FETCH-2(couples multiphase,RT and structural response)

Legacy

Fissile solutions, porous media matrix, reactors;

Compressible (with phase change) and incompressible flows;

Simple structural mechanics response (i.e., limited stress failure criteria);Quad/Hex finite elements with CV representation of scalar fields (no parallel adaptivity);

Add an

adaptivity

library which performs topological operations on the mesh, and mesh movement, to optimise the size and shape of elements in response to error measures

Working robustly and efficiently in parallel

Also building an adjoint to the model for data assimilation, sensitivity studies and goal-based error estimationMake use of open source solutions for solvers, preconditioners, I/O, visualisation, etc

Multi-Physics Models

Finite/Discrete Element Methods;

Particle modelling (Newton Law) and structural mechanics (material engineering – stress modelling);

One-/Two-Way coupling with Fluidity;

Used in coastal defence, reservoir fractures and particle flows applications;

But can be potentially used in nuclear engineering (geological waste repository and

stress-induced core fractures and degradation in reactors

)

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AMCG: Multi-Physics Software Suite

Research & Development:

Emerging Technologies

(Improving Modelling Functionality)

R&D (Cross-Cutting activities), 2010-2014

AMCG

New Dynamic Core

for multiphase flow in

Fluidity

FP7/THINS:

Discretisation

Methods

FP7/

GoFastR

& EPSRC-SA:Safety Assessment in reactors (severe accident scenarios)

EPSRC-MBase/B&W:Criticality in Fissile Solutions

Qatar Petroleum/ShellNew Model for Reservoir Simulator

FETCH2

FETCH2

Lower frame shows the domain decomposition which has been optimised to balance the load based on number of nodes and minimised edge cut

Emerging Technologies: Mesh

Adaptivity and Domain Decomposition

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Movie

Emerging Technologies: Mesh

Adaptivity and Domain

Decomposition – lock-exchange problem (P1DGP2 balance element)

Compressible high-resolution control volume advection methods combined with moving and adaptive meshes;

Limiting schemes to ensure conservative and bounded solutions;Arbitrary number of materials can be tracked.

Emerging Technologies: Multi-Material Interface Tracking (moving and adaptative meshes)

Emerging Technologies: Multi-Material Interface Tracking (3 materials)

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‘donor’ mesh

‘target’ mesh

‘super mesh’ and mapping from donor mesh

Following construction of the

supermesh

we are able to perform projection operations to achieve conservative, bounded (etc…) interpolation schemes.

2D: Farrell et al., 2009

3D: Farrell,

Maddison, 2009

Emerging Technologies: Conservative interpolation – crucial for many applications with mesh

adaptivity

and coupled models

FEM

Emerging Technologies: Finite/Discrete Element Methods (FEMDEM)

DEM

+

Emerging Technologies: Finite/Discrete Element Methods (FEMDEM)

Land-slide and

Idealised coastal defence

Emerging Technologies: Finite/Discrete Element Methods (FEMDEM)

Idealised coastal defence

accropode

blocks;

Study of stress-induced fractures for different block designs.

One-/Two-way coupling of Fluids and Solids (Capturing Interactions)In Fluidity, solid is treated as fluid (multiphase flow)1 mesh for the domain (fluid), 1 mesh for solid: user-friendly as it is easy to generate the meshes of complex solidsUsage of Conservative Interpolation in order to obtain solid's location on the fluids meshExchange of momentum and location between solids and fluid at each time-stepIntroducing third phase: Air (acting as a surface)

Emerging Technologies: Immersed-Body Method (Fluid-Solid Interaction Modelling)

Emerging Technologies: Immersed-Body Method (Fluid-Solid Interaction Modelling)

Re=5k

Re=1k

Immersed-Body Method

Emerging Technologies: Immersed-Body Method (Fluid-Solid Interaction Modelling)

Emerging Technologies:Thermo-Chemical Modelling

Initial generic chemical modelling framework for geochemistry application (funded by QCCRSC Programme) for oil/gas reservoirs, CO

2

sequestration and storage aquifers (PhD student);

Chemical kinetics and thermodynamic equilibrium;

In order to improve of our understanding of a set of SA phenomenology

we need a sophisticated thermo-chemical model framework

within (or coupled to) FETCH2 with a reliable chemical-kinetics library covering:

Chemical reactions and advanced thermodynamics

(EOS

 phase change)

;

Back-up Slides

Code repository;Automatic and continuous verification & validation;More than 100 verification & validation test-cases for RT;More than 1000 verification & validation test-cases for CFD (including unit-tests);Large number of benchmark tests for the coupled formulation (e.g., TRACY, SILENE, CRAC, SUPO, HTR, Shipping-port reactor and other AIEA –based tests)Full documentation;International training (e.g., B&W, LANL, Y12, open-source community, etc)

Research & Development

Model and Software Quality Assurance

Research & Development

Model and Software Quality Assurance