Syeilendra Pramuditya Department of Nuclear Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology December 2012
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Fuel Subassembly
unsteady term + convection term = diffusion term + source term + fluctuation term
J 0
pI + q 1
( q p v + )
n +1 i ,l
n +1 i ,l
n i ,l
n i ,l n + E = Qcn,+,1l + Qw,+i1l i ,
Discretized equations
t 3 n +1 n +1 n +1 p i ,l {w A} {w A} + k {u n +1 A} Qtn,i ,l i ,l +1/ 2 i ,l 1/ 2 k ,l k =1
Axial momentum Vi ,l +1/ 2
Need modeling
w i ,l +1/ 2 t
n +1
n i ,l +1/ 2
+ Mz = { p n +1} A + Rz
i ,l +1
({ p } A )
n +1
i ,l
n i ,l +1/ 2
n +1/ 2 i ,l +1/ 2
Vi ,l +1/ 2
Need modeling
n k ,l
n +1 k ,l
+ Mx = k { p n +1} A + Rx
mk ,l
({ p } A )
n +1
i ,l
n +1/ 2 k ,l
Need modeling
(
A fs
Az w2 pn + n dA = pz = fz V 2 De
Pipe models Engel/Novendstern models Rehme model Cheng-Todreas model
(
A fs
Ax u 2 pn + n dA = px = fx V 2 DV
Gunter-Shaw
A ff
ev n dA = Wij*, H C p Ti T j
COBRA model Cheng-Todreas model
i =
Cmix DV ,k
ij Re
0.125 k
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Ti ,l
pi ,l 1
pi ,l +1
pm1,l
pm 2,l
X = pi ,l
r
Ti ,l pi ,l 1 pi ,l +1 pm1,l pm 2,l
pm3,l
r Fmass F = r Fenergy
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2 ( p ) =
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a11 Al ,l = Pl = p1,l
Bl = b1,l
aI , I
p I ,l
T
p2,l pi ,l
b2,l bi ,l bI ,l
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SOLVER
POST-PROCESSOR Displaying the calculation result into something meaningful to the user (e.g. nice fancy colorful images and graphs).
Initialize
Steady state
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2000
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100% power & flow Re 16200 Radial skew 3.0 Wall heat loss 0%
500 480 460 440 420 400 380 360 340 320 300 280 z [cm] 260 240 220 200 180 160 140 120 100
Po we r
80
Sk e
60
w
He los at s
40 20 -2 -1 0 x [cm] 1 2
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1% power & flow Re 162 Radial skew 3.0 Wall heat loss 10%
500 480 460 440 420 400 380 360 340 320 300 280 z [cm] 260 240 220 200 180 160 140 120 100
Po we r
80 60
Sk e
w
He los at s
40 20 0 -3 -2 -1 0 x [cm] 1 2
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Experiment Parameters
Flow rate gal/min 0.74 2.1 2.6 4.2 5 32 42 55 Power kW/ft.rod 0.15 0.46 0.54 0.89 0.94 4.8 4.8 9.7 Tin [F] 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 600 dT [F] 193 192 175 190 190 130 97 158
*M.H. Fontana, R.E. MacPherson, P.A. Gnadt and L.F. Parsly, Temperature distribution in the duct wall and at the exit of a 19-rod simulated LMFBR fuel assembly (FFM Bundle 2A), Nuclear Technology, Vol. 24, 1974, pp. 176200.
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Gap numbering
Boundary conditions: Inlet coolant temperature Total mass flow rate Outlet pressure Constant wall heat flux
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T* =
Tout ,avg =
T
i =1 N i =1
i wi Ai
,
Max Error: 5.2% RMS error: 3.5%
i i i
w A
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Experiment Parameters
Re 11200 2810 739 7610 Gr 13600 52800 61100 20100 Power skew [max/avrg] 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.17
*F. Namekawa, A. Ito, K. Mawatari, Buoyancy Effects on Wire-Wrapped Rod Bundle Heat Transfer in an LMFBR Fuel Assembly, National Heat Transfer Conference, 1984.
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915 mm
Gap numbering
Calculation domain: 37 pins 78 subchannels 114 gaps 38 axial planes (dz = 2.583 cm)
Boundary conditions: Inlet coolant temperature Inlet total mass flow rate Outlet pressure Constant wall heat flux
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Re 11200, Gr 13600, Skew 1.0 1.6 Normalized Temperature 1.4 1.2 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 -25 Exp. data Case C04 (Hot) Case C04 (Cold) -15 -5 5 15 Flat-to-Flat Distance [mm] 25
Normalized Temperature
ErrorRMS [%] 8.5 (Cold) 5.5 (Hot) 3.4 (Hot) 5.6 (Hot)
Skew 1.34
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