Numerical Investigation on Natural Circulation in a Simplified Passive Containment Cooling System 


Vol. 33,  No. 3, pp. 92-98, Jun.  2018
10.14346/JKOSOS.2018.33.3.92


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The flow of cooling water in a passive containment cooling system (PCCS), used to remove heat released in design basis accidents from a concrete containment of light water nuclear power plant, was conducted in order to investigate the thermo-fluid equilibrium among many parallel tubes of PCCS. Numerical simulations of the subcooled boiling flow within a coolant loop of a PCCS, which will be installed in innovative pressurized-water reactor (PWR), were conducted using the commercially available computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS-CFX. Shear stress transport (SST) and the RPI model were used for turbulence closure and subcooled flow boiling, respectively. As the first step, the simplified geometry of PCCS with 36 tubes was modeled in order to reduce computational resource. Even and uneven thermal loading conditions were applied at the outer walls of parallel tubes for the simulation of the coolant flow in the PCCS at the initial phase of accident. It was observed that the natural circulation maintained in single-phase for all even and uneven thermal loading cases. For uneven thermal loading cases, coolant velocity in each tube were increased according to the applied heat flux. However, the flows were mixed well in the header and natural circulation of the whole cooling loop was not affected by uneven thermal loading significantly.

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[IEEE Style]

서정수, "Numerical Investigation on Natural Circulation in a Simplified Passive Containment Cooling System," Journal of the Korean Society of Safety, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 92-98, 2018. DOI: 10.14346/JKOSOS.2018.33.3.92.

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서정수. 2018. Numerical Investigation on Natural Circulation in a Simplified Passive Containment Cooling System. Journal of the Korean Society of Safety, 33, 3, (2018), 92-98. DOI: 10.14346/JKOSOS.2018.33.3.92.

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