Unsteady Simulation of a Full-Scale CANDU-6 Moderator with OpenFOAM

Autor: Hyoung Tae Kim, Se-Myong Chang, Young Woo Son
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Energies, Vol 12, Iss 2, p 330 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en12020330
Popis: Three-dimensional moderator flow in the calandria tank of CANDU-6 pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) is computed with Open Field Operation and Manipulation (OpenFOAM), an open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. In this study, numerical analysis is performed on the real geometry model including 380 fuel rods in the calandria tank with the heat-source distribution to remove uncertainty of the previous analysis models simplified by the porous media approach. Realizable k-ε turbulence model is applied, and the buoyancy due to temperature variation is considered by Boussinesq approximation for the incompressible single-phase Navier-Stokes equations. The calculation results show that the flow is highly unsteady in the moderator. The computational flow visualization shows a circulation of flow driven by buoyancy and asymmetric oscillation at the pseudo-steady state. There is no region where the local temperature rises continuously due to slow circulating flow and its convection heat transfer.
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