The ADREA-HF CFD code for consequence assessment of hydrogen applications

Abstract Application of the CFD methodology for risk assessment of hydrogen applications and associated support of regulation, codes and standards has been growing its momentum during the last years. The CFD tools applied should prove to be “adequately” validated for hydrogen applications. This contribution focuses on the hydrogen related validation work performed with the CFD code ADREA-HF. The code is a three dimensional transient fully compressible flow and dispersion CFD solver, able to treat highly complex geometries using the porosity formulation on Cartesian grids. The ADREA-HF validation effort was performed within various EC co-funded projects (EIHP, EIHP-2, HyApproval, HyPer, HySafe). Various types of hydrogen release scenarios were considered, including gaseous and liquefied releases, open, semi-confined and confined environments, sonic (under-expanded) and low momentum releases. In parallel to its validation the ADREA-HF code has been extensively used for regulations, codes and standards support.

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