Publication detail

Assessing the Phebus FPT-1 experiment: Insights from MELCOR 2.2 and ASYST codes

MIČIAN, P. ČERNÝ, T. PETROSYAN, T. FORAL, Š. KATOVSKÝ, K. PTÁČEK, M.

Original Title

Assessing the Phebus FPT-1 experiment: Insights from MELCOR 2.2 and ASYST codes

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Phebus is an experimental facility that represents a scaled-down version of the French 900 MWe pressurized water reactor (PWR) with a ratio of 1/5000. In order to study phenomena occurring during severe accidents in light water reactors, five experiments (FPT-0 to FPT-4) were performed under different fuel and cooling conditions. This paper provides a comprehensive description of the Phebus FPT-1 experiment, MELCOR and ASYST computer codes, discusses the modelling approaches employed and compares the calculated results with the experimental data. To quantitatively assess the results, the Figure of Merits of selected parameters were calculated for both computer codes using ACAP software.

Keywords

MELCOR; ASYST; Phebus FPT-1; ACAP; Figure of Merit; Thermal-hydraulics

Authors

MIČIAN, P.; ČERNÝ, T.; PETROSYAN, T.; FORAL, Š.; KATOVSKÝ, K.; PTÁČEK, M.

Released

14. 7. 2024

Publisher

Korean Nuclear Society

ISBN

2234-358X

Periodical

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Year of study

56

Number

12

State

Republic of Korea

Pages from

5136

Pages to

5144

Pages count

9

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S173857332400336X

BibTex

@article{BUT189226,
  author="Peter {Mičian} and Tomáš {Černý} and Taron {Petrosyan} and Štěpán {Foral} and Karel {Katovský} and Michal {Ptáček}",
  title="Assessing the Phebus FPT-1 experiment: Insights from MELCOR 2.2 and ASYST codes",
  journal="Nuclear Engineering and Technology",
  year="2024",
  volume="56",
  number="12",
  pages="5136--5144",
  doi="10.1016/j.net.2024.07.021",
  issn="2234-358X",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S173857332400336X"
}