• Title of article

    CFDsimulationoftheVattenfall1/5th-scalePWRmodelforborondilutionstudiesOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    T.V.Dury، نويسنده , , B.Hemstr?m، نويسنده , , N. N. Shepel، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    577
  • To page
    589
  • Abstract
    TheVATT-02experiment,performedatVattenfall,Sweden,witha1/5th-scalemodelofa3-loopPWRpressurevessel,hasbeensimulatedwiththecomputationalfluiddynamics(CFD)codeCFX-5atPSI,Switzerland.ThesimulationswereinitiallypartoftheFLOMIX-REU5thFrameworkProgramme,aimedatprovidingvalidationdatapriortoCFDcodesbeingusedtomodelfull-sizenuclearvessels.ThesestudieswereextendedatPSItoexaminemesheffects.Steady-statevelocitiesandtransientboronconcentrationdistributionswereplotted,andtheirsensitivitytodifferentCFDmodelsandmeshrefinementexamined.Steady-statevelocitiesinthedowncomerwerenotingoodagreementwithexperimentatallinstrumentationlocations,but,nevertheless,predictedtransientborondistributionanditsminimumconcentrationatthecoreinletwereclosetothemeasureddata.Usefulconclusionscouldbedrawnforapplicationtofullreactorsize.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    895030