The Three Dimensional Thermal Hydraulic Code Bagira. (open access)

The Three Dimensional Thermal Hydraulic Code Bagira.

BAGIRA - a thermal-hydraulic program complex was primarily developed for using it in nuclear power plant simulator models, but is also used as a best-estimate analytical tool for modeling two-phase mixture flows. The code models allow consideration of phase transients and the treatment of the hydrodynamic behavior of boiling and pressurized water reactor circuits. It provides the capability to explicitly model three-dimensional flow regimes in various regions of the primary and secondary circuits such as, the mixing regions, circular downcomer, pressurizer, reactor core, main primary loops, the steam generators, the separator-reheaters. In addition, it is coupled to a severe-accident module allowing the analysis of core degradation and fuel damage behavior. Section II will present the theoretical basis for development and selected results are presented in Section III. The primary use for the code complex is to realistically model reactor core behavior in power plant simulators providing enhanced training tools for plant operators.
Date: May 4, 2003
Creator: Kalinichenko, S. D.; Kohut, P.; Kroshilin, A. E.; Kroshilin, V. E. & Smirnov, A. V.
System: The UNT Digital Library