• Title of article

    Single-phaseCFDapplicabilityforestimatingfluidhot-spotlocationsina5×5fuelrodbundleOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    KazuoIkeda، نويسنده , , YasushiMakino، نويسنده , , MasayaHoshi، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    1149
  • To page
    1154
  • Abstract
    High-thermalperformancePWRspacergridsrequirebothoflowpressurelossandhighcriticalheatflux(CHF)properties.Therefore,anumericalstudyusingcomputationalfluiddynamics(CFD)wascarriedouttoestimatepressurelossinstrapandmixingvanestructures.Moreover,aCFDsimulationundersingle-phaseflowconditionwasconductedforonespecificconditioninawaterdeparturefromnucleateboiling(DNB)testtoexaminetheapplicabilityoftheCFDmodelforpredictingtheCHFrodposition.EnergyfluxaroundtherodsurfaceinawaterDNBtestisthesumoftheintrinsicenergyfluxfromarodandtheextrinsicenergyfluxfromotherrods,andincrementsoftheenthalpyanddecrementsofflowvelocityneartherodsurfaceareassumedtoaffectCHFperformance.CFDmakesitpossibletomodelthecomplicatedflowfieldconsistingofaspacergridandarodbundleandevaluatethelocalvelocityandenthalpydistributionaroundtherodsurface,whichareassumedtodeterminetheinitialconditionsforthetwo-phasestructure.Theresultsofthisstudyindicatethatsingle-phaseCFDcanplayasignificantroleindesigningPWRspacergridsforimprovedCHFperformance.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    896067