Review Article

CFD Applications to Pressurized Thermal Shock-Related Phenomena

Table 12

Calculation characteristics.

CFD simulationTestMesh resolutionCPU time/calculation timeComputing machine/CPU
specification

Single-phase
 ROCOM
  Loginov et al. [31]FLOMIX-R project,
d05m00
3.0 M, 5.3 M, and 12.3 M
cells (in total) and 0.26 M,
0.42 M, 0.82 M, 2.02 M, and
13.3 M cells (in the CL)
N/AN/A
  Loginov et al. [14]FLOMIX-R project, d05m05,
m10, and m15
13.2 M (d05m05), 15.2 M
(d05m10), and 19.9
M cells (d05m15)
2 months on 20-32
processors
N/A
  Farkas et al. [40]OECD PKL2 project, test 1.14.6 M cellsN/AN/A
  Feng et al. [73]FLOMIX-R project, d10m0515 M cells2 CPU daysCEA’s HPC machine
“CURIE”
  Höhne et al. [16, 30] and
Höhne and Kliem [79]
IAEA CRP, d10m10 and
d00m15
6.5 M nodes and 4 M
hybrid elements (CFX)
and 22 M elements (TrioCFD)
CFX: 23 h on 32 processors
(simulation time: 50 s)
CFX: HZDR’s Linux-Cluster
“Hydra” (Intel Xeon,
8-Core or 16-Core)
30 h on 1008 processors
(simulation time: 60 s)
TrioCFD: CEA’s HPC
machine “CURIE”
  Puragliesi [41]OECD PKL2 project, tests
1.1, 2.1, and 2.2
1.4 M, 11.9 M, and
16.9 M cells
N/AN/A
  Čarija et al. [80]IAEA CRP, d10m108.5 M cellsN/AN/A
  Chouhan et al. [16, 32]IAEA CRP, d10m10Coarse mesh (RANS)
and 2.8 M, 5 M, and
12 M cells (LES)
N/AN/A
  Wei et al. [42]OECD PKL2 project, tests 1.1,
2.1, and 2.2
8.3 M cellsN/AN/A
  Ayad et al. [81]IAEA CRP, d10m106.5 M elements11 days on 82 processors
(simulation time: 300 s)
3.66 GHz, containing
32 GB RAM
 TOPFLOW-PTS
  Rodio and Bieder [87] and
Bieder and Rodio [34]
TSW 3-4TrioCFD: 22 M and
NEPTUNE_CFD:
0.78 M cells
TrioCFD: 200 CPU hours
for the incompressible
hypothesis and 600 CPU
hours for the dilatable
hypothesis on 1008
processors (simulation
time: 500 s)
TrioCFD: CINES’s HPC
machine “OCCIGEN”
NEPTUNE_CFD: 8520
CPU hours on 100 processors
(simulation time: 500 s)
NEPTUNE_CFD: CEA’s
cluster
 UPTF
  Martin et al. [57]Transient and water of
different temperature case
Code_Saturne and
NEPTUNE_CFD:
0.25 M cells
(fluid domain) and
0.66 M cells
(solid domain) and
STAR-CD: 0.51 M
cells (fluid domain)
and 0.27 M cells
(solid domain)
N/AN/A
  Beukelmann et al. [58]TRAM C1 Run2a10.35 M (main coolant
pipes and DC) and 0.22 M
(lower plenum) nodes
N/AN/A
  Höhne et al. [59]Test I4.3 M elements and
0.8 M nodes
4 days on 8 processors
(simulation time: 150 s)
N/A
  Li et al. [4]Test 113.91 M, 6.72 M, 12.7 M,
24 M, 30 M cells
N/AN/A
 LSTF
  Cai and Watanabe [65]ROSA-V program,
preparatory test for
test 1-1
1 M cellsMax: 21388 s on a
single processor
Min: 361 s on 64 processors
(simulation time: 0.1 s)
JAEA’s PRIMERGY BX900
  Farkas and Tóth [66]ROSA project, test 1-11.5 M cells3 daysIntel Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz
  Scheuerer and Weis [67]ROSA project, test 1-11, 5.2, and 8 M elementsN/AN/A
Two-phase
 TOPFLOW-PTS
  Deendarlianto et al. [94]NURISP project,
steady-state air–water
case (posttest)
1.5 M elements2 months on 16 processorsHZDR’s Linux cluster
(AMD Opteron F 2220,
2.8 GHz, dual-core)
  Ničeno et al. [119]NURISP project,
steady-state air–water
case (posttest)
0.85 M cellsRANS: 2 months
LES: 3 months
Intel Xeon CPUs, 3 GHz
  Deshpande et al. [95]NURISP project,
steady-state air–water
case (posttest)
0.85 M cellsN/AN/A
  Kim et al. [96]NURISP project,
steady-state air–water
case (posttest)
0.87 M, 4.4 M, and
5.7 M cells
N/AN/A
  Apanasevich et al. [92]NURISP project,
steady-state steam–water
case (pretest)
0.87 M and 1.7
M elements
3 months on 16 processorsHZDR’s Linux cluster
(AMD Opteron F 2220,
2.8 GHz, dual-core)
  Coste and Lecomte [104]SSSW 3-20.54 M cellsN/AN/A
  Apanasevich et al. [35]NURESAFE project,
undisclosed in detail (there
is a possibility of SSSW 3-17.)
1.2 M and 2.0 M cells3-4 weeks on 96-128
processors
HZDR’s Linux cluster
(Intel 8-Core Xeon
E5-2667v2, 3.3 GHz)
  Coste and Mérigoux [105] and
Mérigoux et al. [107]
NURESAFE project,
SSSW 3-16, 3-17, 3-18, 3-19
0.78 M cellsAbout 30 restart calculations
of 24 CPU hours each
CEA’s HPC machine
“CURIE”
  Mérigoux et al. [106]SSSW 3-17 (mesh
sensitivity study) and
TSW 3-5
0.44 M, 0.78 M, 1.1 M,
1.8 M cells (SSSW 3-17)
and 0.78 M cells
(TSW 3-5)
N/AN/A
  Mérigoux et al. [17]NURESAFE project,
SSSW 3-17
CFX: 1.2 M cells,
NEPTUNE_CFD: 0.78 M
cells, and TransAT:
1.2 M elements
N/AN/A
  Apanasevich et al. [91]NURISP project,
steady-state air–water
and steam–water cases
(pretests)
0.85 M elements2.5-3 months on 12
processors
FZD’s Linux cluster
(AMD Opteron F 2220,
2.8 GHz)
  Martin et al. [93]NURISP project,
steady-state air–water
and steam–water cases
(pretests)
0.43 M cells (fluid domain)
and 0.06 M cells
(solid domain)
N/AN/A
  Apanasevich et al. [15]NURISP project,
steady-state air–water
(posttest) and steam–water
cases (pretest)
CFX: 0.87M and 1.5 M
elements (air–water) and
0.87 M and 1.7 M cells
(steam–water), FLUENT:
0.87 M elements, and
NEPTUNE_CFD: 0.53
M cells (air–water and
steam–water) and 1.5 M
elements (steam–water)
N/AN/A
 UPTF
  Cremer et al. [108]TRAM C2 Run6bNot listedN/AN/A
 LSTF
  Cai and Watanabe [65]ROSA-V program,
preparatory test for
test 1-1
1.5 M elementsN/AN/A