• Title of article

    AnumericalstudyofradiationheattransferinsodiumpoolcombustionandresponsesurfacemodelingofluminousflameemissivityOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    AkiraYamaguchi، نويسنده , , YujiTajima، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    1179
  • To page
    1191
  • Abstract
    Aresponsesurfacemodeloftheluminousflameemissivityofsodiumpoolfirehasbeenproposedforuseinsafetyanalysiscomputercodesofaliquidmetalfastreactor.Theliquidsodiumburnsinairresultinginnotonlyheatgenerationbutalsoreleaseofsodiumoxideaerosolsofsub-microndiameters.Aerosolslevitatinginairareradiativeandtheyinfluencetheallocationofcombustionheatfromtheflametoatmosphericgasorsodiumpool.Theemissivityoftheflameneedstobequantified,asitisoneofuser-specifiedparametersofthecomputercodesforthesodiumfireanalysis.Theresponsesurfacemodeloftheflameemissivityisdevelopedbasedonnumericalexperimentsonthephysicsofmassandheattransferandbehavioroftheaerosol.Thermal-hydraulicequationshavebeensolvedcoupledwithaerosoldynamicsandchemicalreaction.Threeinfluentialvariablesontheemissivityareidentifiedaspooltemperature,gastemperatureandoxygenmolarfractionintheair.Ithasbeenfoundthattheemissivityiscalculatedreasonablyasafunctionofthethreevariables.Theproposedresponsesurfacemodelcanbeeasilyemployedinthesodiumfireanalysiscodesbecauseitisasimplequadraticexpression.Forthesafetyevaluationofthesodiumfire,combineduseisrecommendedoftheproposedmodelandthelumped-masszonemodelcode.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    896070