1.6. Application Highlights

1) Hydrogen Safety Analysis during Severe Accident in Nuclear Power Plants

GASFLOW code has been widely utilized for performing 3D hydrogen safety analysis in nuclear power plants in countries like Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Korea, Austria, China, Switzerland, Mexico, and Finland.

Jianjun Xiao*, John R. Travis, Peter Royl, Gottfried Necker, Anatoly Svishchev, Thomas Jordan, Three-dimensional all-speed CFD code for safety analysis of nuclear reactor containment: Status of GASFLOW parallelization, model development, validation and application, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 301, 2016, Pages 290-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2015.12.033.

2) Hypothetical Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Accident in a Refueling Station

Hydrogen Dispersion and Explosion Modeling Using GASFLOW-MPI

Fangnian Wang, Jianjun Xiao*, Mike Kuznetsov, Wolfgang Breitung, Binbin He, Shengchao Rui, Shangyong Zhou, Thomas Jordan, Ke Song, Lijun Zhang, Deterministic Risk Assessment of Hydrogen Leak from a Fuel Cell Truck in a Real-scale Hydrogen Refueling Station, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023, , ISSN 0360-3199, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.09.114.

3) Hypothetical Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Accident in Tunnel

Hydrogen Dispersion, Jet Fire and Explosion Modeling Using GASFLOW-MPI

Yabing Li, Jianjun Xiao*, Han Zhang, Wolfgang Breitung, Jack Travis, Mike Kuznetsov, Thomas Jordan, Numerical analysis of hydrogen release, dispersion and combustion in a tunnel with fuel cell vehicles using all-speed CFD code GASFLOW-MPI, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 46, Issue 23, 2021, Pages 12474-12486, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.09.063

4) Hydrogen Explosion in a Refueling Station

Hydrogen Explosion Modeling Using GASFLOW-MPI

Fangnian Wang, Jianjun Xiao*, Thomas Jordan, GASFLOW-MPI analysis on deflagration in full-scale hydrogen refueling station experiments: H2-air premixed cloud and high-pressure H2 jet, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 47, Issue 32, 2022, Pages 14725-14739, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.02.215.

5) Hydrogen Explosion at Fukushima Accident

Hydrogen Dispersion, Explosion and Blast Wave Propagation Modeling Using GASFLOW-MPI

Jianjun Xiao*, Wolfgang Breitung, M. Kuznetsov, H. Zhang, John R. Travis, R. Redlinger, Thomas Jordan, GASFLOW-MPI: A new 3-D parallel all-speed CFD code for turbulent dispersion and combustion simulations Part II: First analysis of the hydrogen explosion in Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, March 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.01.219

6) Methane Explosion in the Roadway of a Coal Mine

Methane Explosion and Blast Wave Propagation Modeling Using GASFLOW-MPI

Yuntao Liang, Baiwei Lei, Shuanglin Song, Jianjun Xiao, Mike Kuznetsov, Thomas Jordan, Numerical analysis of the distribution of combustion products from methane explosions in a full-scale tunnel using all-speed CFD code GASFLOW-MPI, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 45:3, 2023, 7105-7121, https://doi.org/10.1080/15567036.2023.2219228.

7) Coronavirus Aerosol Transmission and Infection Risk Analysis