Papers and Presentations from the West Yellowstone Meeting


The 2006 International RELAP5 Users Seminar was held August 16-18th in West Yellowstone, Montana. Thirty participants from the U.S., Europe and Asia attended. There were 21 papers presented encompassing development, validation, and application activities using RELAP5-3D as well as other versions. The following list of presentations is in the chronological order in which they were presented at the conference. Click on one of the following titles to view the presentation.

Paper Title

Authors

Organization

Status of RELAP5-3D Development and Applications

Gary Johnsen

INL

Modeling Compact Counter-Flow Heat Exchangers with RELAP5-3D

Dave Aumiller

Bettis

Enhancements to the RELAP5-3D Conduction Model

Walt Weaver

INL

FORTRAN 90 Conversion of RELAP5-3D

George Mesina

INL

Restructuring RELAP5-3D

Joshua Hykes

INL

RELAP5 Analysis of Operator’s Response to Nuclear Power Station Blackout

Alex Matev

ESKOM

Status of NGNP Methods R&D

Richard Schultz

INL

Status of the activities related to the use of RELAP5-3D at the Technical University of Catalonia

Lluis Batet

U. of Catalonia

SNAP Graphical User Interface

Ken Jones

APT

Development of a Gas Cooled Fast Reactor RELAP5-3D thermal-hydraulic model

Carlos Parisi

U. of Pisa

Modeling EBR-II LOFWS and LOHSWS using RELAP5-3D

Cliff Davis

INL

Applicability of RELAP5-3D for Thermal-Hydraulic Analyses of a Sodium-Cooled Actinide Burner Test Reactor

Cliff Davis

INL

RELAP5-3D Coolability Calculation for Irradiated, Dried Np/Pu Targets in Proposed Storage Rack Configuration

Jim Fisher

INL

Licensing Analysis of RPV and BOP Blowdown with RELAP5-3D/K for Lungmen ABWR Containment Design

Thomas Liang

INER

Use of RELAP5-3D for Dynamic Analysis of Closed-Loop Brayton Cycle Coupled to A Nuclear Reactor

Larry McCann

Bettis

The use of RELAP5-3D code in the OECD/NEA VVER-1000 CT-1 and CT-2 Benchmark

Carlos Parisi

U. of Pisa

Performance Assessment of the Two-Phase Pump Degradation Model in RELAP5-3D

Dave Aumiller

Bettis

RELAP5 Modeling of the INL-OSU GRTS Facility

Brian Jackson

Oregon State University

AREVA’s Activities Related to VHTR Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis Using RELAP5-3D

Bob Martin

Areva NP

The use of RELAP5-3D code in the OECD/NEA BFBT Benchmark

Carlos Parisi

U. of Pisa

Development of a 3D Neutron Kinetic-Thermal-hydraulic model for an RBMK reactor by RELAP5-3D code.

Carlos Parisi

U. of Pisa