The aim of this master thesis is to implement and test a multi-fluid model for multiple dispersed phases (>2) for core flow simulation in boiling water reactors (BWR). The implementation is to be made in OpenFOAM (
www.openfoam.org) which currently is the fastest growing open source solver for continuum mechanics simulation. OpenFOAM is a C
++ library for discretizing systems of equations and solving matrices and the top level coding resembles that of Matlab™ rather than traditional coding in C
++.
This project is cooperatively supervised by the Nuclear Reactor Technology Division (NRT) at KTH and the Mechanical Engineering Department at ÅF. The work will be divided between NRT and ÅF in such way as to give the student insight in both the academic and the consultancy world of nuclear technology and computational physics. The student will be economically compensated when the thesis is finished.
A suitable academic background could include but is not limited to:
- Fluid mechanics
- Numerical analysis
- Applied Physics/Mathematics
- Reactor Technology
...together with a general knowledge in C++ and a great deal of enthusiasm.