Development and Application of Autonomous Computational Fluid Dynamics Code WINGS-CFD for Nuclear Reactors

Deng Jian; Wei Zonglan; Zeng Wei; Li Songwei; Qiu Zhifang; Liu Luguo

doi:10.13832/j.jnpe.2024.S2.0063

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Deng Jian, Wei Zonglan, Zeng Wei, Li Songwei, Qiu Zhifang, Liu Luguo. Development and Application of Autonomous Computational Fluid Dynamics Code WINGS-CFD for Nuclear Reactors[J]. Nuclear Power Engineering, 2024, 45(S2): 63-69. doi: 10.13832/j.jnpe.2024.S2.0063

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Deng Jian, Wei Zonglan, Zeng Wei, Li Songwei, Qiu Zhifang, Liu Luguo. Development and Application of Autonomous Computational Fluid Dynamics Code WINGS-CFD for Nuclear Reactors[J]. Nuclear Power Engineering, 2024, 45(S2): 63-69. doi: 10.13832/j.jnpe.2024.S2.0063

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Deng Jian, Wei Zonglan, Zeng Wei, Li Songwei, Qiu Zhifang, Liu Luguo. Development and Application of Autonomous Computational Fluid Dynamics Code WINGS-CFD for Nuclear Reactors[J]. Nuclear Power Engineering, 2024, 45(S2): 63-69. doi: 10.13832/j.jnpe.2024.S2.0063

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Development and Application of Autonomous Computational Fluid Dynamics Code WINGS-CFD for Nuclear Reactors

doi: 10.13832/j.jnpe.2024.S2.0063

National Key Laboratory of Nuclear Reactor Technology, Nuclear Power Institute of China, Chengdu, 610213, China

Received Date: 2024-02-27
Rev Recd Date: 2024-09-24
Publish Date: 2025-01-06

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To meet the requirements of high-precision numerical simulation of reactor flow and heat transfer, this article introduces WINGS-CFD (Workbench of Intelligent Nuclear reactor desiGn and Simulation-Computational Fluid Dynamics), an autonomous Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code for nuclear reactors developed by Nuclear Power Institute of China, which is designed based on the object-oriented and hierarchical architecture principles with a high degree of extension. This article comprehensively outlines the overall design concepts of WINGS-CFD, covering aspects such as theoretical models, numerical discretization methods, and code architecture. Numerical calculations for typical reactor scenarios involving flow and heat transfer conditions are conducted using WINGS-CFD. The results show that the accuracy of WINGS-CFD calculation results is equivalent to that of commercial CFD code. WINGS-CFD has excellent parallel performance, which can support large-scale numerical simulation of billions of grids and coupled simulation of neutron transport and flow and heat transfer, and provides an autonomous numerical technique for refined multi-physical field analysis of reactor system.
- Nuclear reactor,
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),
- Flow and heat transfer,
- Hierarchical architecture

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