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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Afaque Shams, Dante De Santis (NRG), Adam Padee, Tobiasz Jarosiewicz, Piotr Wasiuk, Tomasz Kwiatkowski, S?awomir Potempski (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings | Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2018 | Orlando, FL, November 11-15, 2018 | Pages 625-635
This paper presents technical aspects of large-scale direct numerical simulation (DNS) using high performance computing (HPC) cluster. It is divided in two parts. The first part contains a detailed description of HPC infrastructure used for the task, located in ?wierk Computing Centre (CI?), Poland. The description includes hardware configuration, software used for on-demand deployment of dedicated subclusters, and finally queuing and storage systems. The second part presents the large-scale simulations performed using this HPC cluster. In this regard, a highly scalable CFD code NEK5000 has been used to perform the DNS of two important thermal-hydraulic problems within the nuclear industry, i.e. pressurized thermal shock and inter-channel mixing in a bare rod bundle configuration.
