Citation
Zheleva, Nonka and Herrero Carrascosa, José Javier and Todorova, Galina and Ivanov, Plamen and Kolev, Nikola
(2012).
Benchmarking of COBAYA3 pin-by-pin for VVER.
In: "22nd Symposium of AER on VVER React or Physics and Reactor Safety", 01/10/2012 - 05/10/2012, Pruhonice, Czech Republic. pp. 1-13.
Abstract
This paper presents results of the benchmarking of COBAYA3 pin-by-pin for VVER-1000 obtained in the frame of the EU NURISP project. The 3D lattice solver in COBAYA3 uses
transport corrected multi-group diffusion approximation with side-dependent interface discontinuity factors of GET or Selengut Black Box type. The objective of this study is to test the few-group calculation scheme when using structur
ed and unstructured spatial meshes. Unstructured mesh is necessary to model the water gaps between the hexagonal
assemblies. The benchmark problems include pin-by-pin calculations of 2D subsets of the core and comparison with APOLLO2 and TR IPOLI4 transport reference solutions.
COBAYA3 solutions in 2, 4 and 8 energy groups have been tested. The results show excellent agreement with the reference on es when using side-dependent interface
discontinuity factors.