| Autor: |
Eliott Tixier, Dominique Pelletier, Alexander Hay, Guillaume Ricciardi, Stephane Etienne, Cédric Béguin |
| Rok vydání: |
2015 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Volume 4: Fluid-Structure Interaction. |
| DOI: |
10.1115/pvp2015-45931 |
| Popis: |
In nuclear power plants, heat exchangers undergo important flow induced vibrations, fluidelastic instability (FEI) being the most damaging one. Direct numerical simulations of such a phenomenon is currently an impossible task because of the considerable number of tubes and the two-phase nature of the flow. The novelty of the present approach is to use a porous medium to model the tube bundle and the surrounding flow. The Navier-Stokes equations are averaged on a control volume and the tubes materialized by a porosity field and source terms that model the interactions between the fluid and the solid. New sets of fully coupled equations were developed and solved with a finite element solver using high order time integration schemes. The unsteady porous medium approach already developed for single-phase flow is extended to the Euler-Euler formulation to describe the two-phase mixture. Validation and calibration of the parameters are achieved by comparing the critical flow rate and the forces acting on the tubes with results from direct numerical simulations and experimental data for single-phase flows. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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