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Large eddy simulation on the turbulent mixing phenomena in 3×3 bare tight lattice rod bundle using spectral element method

  • Ju, Haoran (State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) ;
  • Wang, Mingjun (State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) ;
  • Wang, Yingjie (State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) ;
  • Zhao, Minfu (China Institute of Atomic Energy) ;
  • Tian, Wenxi (State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) ;
  • Liu, Tiancai (China Institute of Atomic Energy) ;
  • Su, G.H. (State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University) ;
  • Qiu, Suizheng (State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University)
  • Received : 2019.09.30
  • Accepted : 2020.02.27
  • Published : 2020.09.25
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Abstract

Subchannel code is one of the effective simulation tools for thermal-hydraulic analysis in nuclear reactor core. In order to reduce the computational cost and improve the calculation efficiency, empirical correlation of turbulent mixing coefficient is employed to calculate the lateral mixing velocity between adjacent subchannels. However, correlations utilized currently are often fitted from data achieved in central channel of fuel assembly, which would simply neglect the wall effects. In this paper, the CFD approach based on spectral element method is employed to predict turbulent mixing phenomena through gaps in 3 × 3 bare tight lattice rod bundle and investigate the flow pulsation through gaps in different positions. Re = 5000,10000,20500 and P/D = 1.03 and 1.06 have been covered in the simulation cases. With a well verified mesh, lateral velocities at gap center between corner channel and wall channel (W-Co), wall channel and wall channel (W-W), wall channel and center channel (W-C) as well as center channel and center channel (C-C) are collected and compared with each other. The obvious turbulent mixing distributions are presented in the different channels of rod bundle. The peak frequency values at W-Co channel could have about 40%-50% reduction comparing with the C-C channel value and the turbulent mixing coefficient β could decrease around 25%. corrections for β should be performed in subchannel code at wall channel and corner channel for a reasonable prediction result. A preliminary analysis on fluctuation at channel gap has also performed. Eddy cascade should be considered carefully in detailed analysis for fluctuating in rod bundle.

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