Numerical analysis of supersonic gas jets into liquid pools with or without chemical reaction using the SERAPHIM program

A computer program called SERAPHIM has been developed to calculate multicomponent multiphase flow involving sodium-water chemical reaction in a steam generator of sodium cooled fast reactors. In this study, numerical analyses of supersonic gas jets into liquid pools with or without chemical reaction were performed to validate proposed numerical methods. The SERAPHIM program uses a multi-fluid model and a HSMAC method modified for compressible multiphase flows. An interfacial drag force was calculated from a newly constructed model. A surface reaction model, which has been developed by the authors, was applied to evaluate a mass generation rate by chemical reaction between a gas and liquid phase. As validation for a non-reaction problem, the experiment on horizontal supersonic air jet into water was analyzed. Numerical results showed that velocity of the injected air decreased by the effect of a interfacial drag force, and then the air went upward because of buoyancy. A horizontal penetration length of the air jet agreed with experimental results very well. On the other hand, we analyzed the experiment on vertical supersonic chlorine jet into Na–NaCl mixture. In this analysis, the injected gas disappeared at a certain height from chemical reaction. An estimated plume length showed good agreement with experimental data. The proposed numerical methods were found to be applicable to multiphase flow with supersonic gas jet and chemical reaction.