Generation IV reactors are developed and expected to have a higher safety level than the previous reactors. One of the generation IV reactors is Molten Salt Fast Reactor (MSFR) with the freeze plug and drainage pipe as the integrated safety system. When an accident occurs, the fuel flows down, directly interacts and melts the freeze plug. Moreover, the fuel will be cooled at the safety tank. This research aims to simulate the freeze plug melting process by using Moving Particle Semi Implicit (MPS) method. MPS is a particle method based on Lagrangian mechanism developed by Koshizuka and Oka in 1996. Mainly, the freeze plug consisted of frozen salt and Hastelloy N. There were two kinds of freeze plug geometry used in the simulation, which were without and with copper. The copper thickness was varied between 1.5 - 3.0 mm with 0.5 mm intervals. The additional copper thickness was performed toward the inside of the freeze plug. The height and the radius of freeze plug were 30 mm. The thickness of Hastelloy N and the copper were 8.5 mm and 2.5 mm, respectively. S-curve temperature distribution was initially applied due to the heat transfer between molten salt and the freeze plug material. The results show the melting time of with and without copper cases were 125 s and 250 s, respectively. Moreover, the thicker copper led to the faster freeze plug melting process.
Rayleigh-Taylor instability phenomena were encountered in science world, both on a small scale and large scale (interstellar gas). Rayleigh-Taylor instability is the interpenetration of material that occurs when a fluid is above the other fluid with smaller mass density. The fluid which was originally located in the upper part will continuously broke down and the void is filled by a fluid which was originally located in lower part, so it looks like a bubble. In computational fluid dynamic field, this phenomenon is one of the benchmarks used to test the performance of buoyancy force on a numerical method. On the particle method, particularly, the Rayleigh-Taylor instability has been successfully simulated using Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) method. Similar to the MPS, on this study, the Rayleigh-Taylor instability between the silicon oil and water which driven by buoyancy force was simulated using finite volume particle (FVP) method. From the simulation results it can be concluded that the shape of the bubble produced in the present calculation is similar to the results observed in the experiments and methods of MPS.
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