• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2003년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.84-91
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• 2003

Flow-Induced Vibration of steam generator tubes may result in fretting wear damage at the tube-to-support locations. KSNP(Korean Standard Nuclear Power plant) steam generators experienced fretting wear in the upper part of U-bend above the central cavity region of steam generators. This region has conditions susceptible to the flow-induced vibration, such as high flow velocity, high void fraction, and longer unsupported span. To improve its performance, APR1400 steam generator is designed with additional supports in this region to reduce unsupported span and to reduce peak velocity in the central cavity region. In this paper, we examined its performance improvement using ATHOS code. The thermal-hydraulic condition in the region of secondary side of APR1400 steam generator is obtained using the ATHOS3 code. The effective mass for modal analysis is calculated using the void fraction, enthalpy, and operating pressure information from ATHOS3 code result. With the effective mass distribution along the tube, natural frequency and mode shape is obtained using ANSYS code. Finally, stability ratios and real mean squared displacements for selected tubes of the APR1400 steam generator are computed. From these results, the current design of the APR1400 steam generator are examined.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2002년도 학술대회지
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• pp.47-50
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• 2002

The numerical simulation of a 271-rod fuel assembly of nuclear Liquid-Metal Fast Reactor (LMFR) with an infernal blockage has been carried out. Internal blockage within a subassembly is addressed in the safety assessment because it potentially has very serious consequences for the reactor as a whole. Three dimensional calculations were performed using the SABRE4 computer code for the range of blockage positions and sizes to investigate the seriousness and detectability of the internal blockage. The magnitude and location of the peak temperatures together with the temperature distribution at the subassembly exit were calculated in order to look at the potential for damage within the subassembly, and the possibility of blockage detection. The analysis result shows that the 6-subchannel blockage causes large temperature rise within a assembly with practically no change in mixed mean temperature at the assembly exit.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.201-204
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• 2008

Vortex and swirl occurring in a pump suction intake sump normally reduce the performance and disturb the safe operation of the circulation water pump in thermal power plants. This paper presents a case study of one particular intake sump design via a CFD analysis and a hydraulic model testing. The physical experiments and numerical analysis were performed under two flow and three level variation conditions. The vortex patterns around the pump suction pipe have been predicted by a commercial CFD code with the k-${\varepsilon}$ model. The model tests were conducted on a 1/10 model for a practical intake sump. The location, number and general pattern of the free surface vortex and submerged vortex predicted by CFD simulation were found to be a good agreement with those observed in the model testing.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.274-284
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• 1992

가압경수로 최적 열수력 분석용 전산코드인 CATHRE의 모델 평가를 위하여 가압경수로의 가상 냉각재 상실사고시 원자로 용기내의 유동현상을 모의한 1/15축소의 CREARE 실험을 모의 계산하였다. 이 실험에서 주요변수들은 비상노심 탱각재 주입량과 아냉정도 그리고 계통압력 및 노심에서 발생되는 증기유량이지만. 본 연구에서는 우선 Downcomer에서 역방향유동의 정성적 분석에 촛점을 맞추었다. 모의 계산 결과와 실험 결과를 비교할 때 정량적인 값 뿐 아니라 변화의 경향에서도 차이가 나타난 것은 주로 적절하지 못한 일부의 수치해석 모델과 상간의 계면마찰 때문으로 판단된다. 따라서 매개변수적 민감도 분석을 통하여 CATHARE 전산코드의‘VOLUME’에 접한 접합점에서 운동량 보존방정식의 상세연구 혹은 다차원 분석을 통해서 이 경우의 물리적 현상을 보다 현실적으로 나타낼 수 있다는 결론을 얻었다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회B
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• pp.3175-3180
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• 2008

A metal-fueled pool-type liquid metal fast reactor (LMFR) provides large margins to sodium boiling and fuel damage under accident conditions. The favorable passive safety results are obtained by both a reactivity feedback mechanism in the core and a passive decay heat removal system. Among the various reactivity feedbacks, the ones by a thermal expansion of a radial dimension of the core and by the control rod drivelines are strongly dependent on the flow conditions in the core and the hot pool, respectively. The effects of multidimensional thermal hydraulic characteristics on these reactivity feedbacks are investigated by the system-wide safety analysis code SSC-K with advanced thermal hydraulics models. Particularly a detailed three dimensional thermal hydraulics reactor core model is integrated into SSC-K for use in a whole system analysis of the passive safety aspects of LMR designs. The model provides fuel and cladding temperatures for every fuel pin in a reactor and coolant temperatures for every coolant sub-channel in the reactor.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.256-266
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• 1985

냉각재 유량상실 사고가 가압경수형 원자로인 고리 1호기에 대하여 해석되었다. 냉각재 유량 상실 사고는 그 심각도에 따라 다음과 같이 3가지로 분류된다. 즉, 일부 유량 상실사고, 완전 유량 상실 사고, 그리고 펌프 축 고착 사고이다. 사고 해석은 계통 과도 현상 및 평균 노심분석, DNBR 계산, 그리고 고온점 분석의 3단계로 수행된다. 원자로 계통과도 현상 코드인 KTRAN이 본 사고를 빠른 시간에 모사할 수 있도록 개발되었다. DNBR계산을 위해서는 열수력학 코드인 SCAN및 COBRA IV-I가 채택되었으며, 고온점 분석을 위해서는 연료봉 과도 현상 코드인 LTRAN이 쓰였다. 이러한 전산코드 시스템은 과도 현상 해석에 빨리 응답하여야 한다. 왜냐하면 사고가 발생한 후 수 초안에 심각한 상태에 이르기 때문이다. 불행히도 KTRAN코드에 의하여 이러한 목적은 충족되지 않았다. 그러나 다른 계통 해석 코드에 비하여 잔은 계산 시간에도 불구하고 KTRAN에 의한 계산 결과는 FSAR의 결과와 전반적으로 잘 일치함으로써 KTRAN코드가 사고 해석에 유용함이 밝혀졌다.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1996년도 추계학술발표회논문집(1)
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• pp.357-362
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• 1996

LOFT LBLOCA test, LP-02-6 was analyzed using RELAP5/MOD3.2. It has a distinguished thermal-hydraulic phenomenon of a positive bottom-up core flow in tile blowdown phase. A modified nodalization which is based on that used in LP-LB-1 calculation by Lubbesmeyer was used in the calculation. RELAP5/MOD3.2 predicted overall system hydraulic behavior relatively well. However, the bottom-up quenching in the middle part of the core was not predicted sufficiently. It was demonstrated also that the peak cladding temperature can be predicted well by adjusting a discharge coefficient. But more improvements are needed in order to apply this code to actual plants with less user dependency.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권12호
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• pp.4776-4797
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• 2022

In the one-dimensional thermal-hydraulic (TH) codes, a subcooled boiling model to predict the void fraction profiles in a vertical channel consists of wall heat flux partitioning, the vapor condensation rate, the bubbly-to-slug flow transition criterion, and drift-flux models. Model performance has been investigated in detail, and necessary refinements have been incorporated into the Safety and Performance Analysis Code (SPACE) developed by the Korean nuclear industry for the safety analysis of pressurized water reactors (PWRs). The necessary refinements to models related to pumping factor, net vapor generation (NVG), vapor condensation, and drift-flux velocity were investigated in this study. In particular, a new NVG empirical correlation was also developed using artificial neural network (ANN) techniques. Simulations of a series of subcooled flow boiling experiments at pressures ranging from 1 to 149.9 bar were performed with the refined SPACE code, and reasonable agreement with the experimental data for the void fraction in the vertical channel was obtained. From the root-mean-square (RMS) error analysis for the predicted void fraction in the subcooled boiling region, the results with the refined SPACE code produce the best predictions for the entire pressure range compared to those using the original SPACE and RELAP5 codes.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 1999

열-수리-역학적 상호작용을 해석하기 위한 유한요소 코드가 개발되었다. 이 코드는 Noorishad(1984)에 의해 제시된 유한요소 수식화에 기초하였으며, 절리 거동은 Goodman 의 절리 구성 모델로 모사되었다. 개발된 코드가 각각 절리가 있거나 없는 두가지 종류의 수갱 모델에 대한 T-H-M 상호작용 해석에 적용되었다. 절 리가 없는 모델에 대해서, 수갱벽면으로부터 바깥 방향으로 온도 증가가 뚜렷이 나타났다. 절 리가 있는 모델에 대해서, 절리의 닫힘이 열팽창에 의해 생겼으며, 물이 암석기질보다 낮은 열 전도도와 높은 비열용량을 보이기 때문에 절리를 따라 온도 분포가 상대적으로 낮게 나타났다. 또한 절리 내에서의 열 유동의 영향이 암반내에서의 수리유동의 영향보다 더 크다고 결론내릴 수 있다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.45-60
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• 2006

Presently, the VHTGR (Very High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor) is considered the most attractive candidate for a GEN-IV reactor to produce hydrogen, which will be a key resource for future energy production. A new concept for a reactor cavity cooling system (RCCS), a critical safety feature in the VHTGR, is proposed in the present study. The proposed RCCS consists of passive water pool and active air cooling systems. These are employed to overcome the poor cooling capability of the air-cooled RCCS and the complex cavity structures of the water-cooled RCCS. In order to estimate the licensibility of the proposed design, its performance and integrity were tested experimentally with a reduced-scale mock-up facility, as well as with a separate-effect test facility (SET) for the 1/4 water pool of the RCCS-SNU to examine the heat transfer and pressure drop and code capability. This paper presents the test results for SET and validation of MARS-GCR, a system code for the safety analysis of a HTGR. In addition, CFX5.7, a computational fluid dynamics code, was also used for the code-to-code benchmark of MARS-GCR. From the present experimental and numerical studies, the efficacy of MARS-GCR in application to determining the optimal design of complicated systems such as a RCCS and evaluation of their feasibility has been validated.