Large Eddy Simulation of the shear flow instability in a rod-bundle assembly
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E. Séverac
Abstract
The paper presents a Large Eddy Simulation at high Reynolds number of a section of a sub-channel in a fuel rod-bundle assembly of square pattern inside a pressurized water reactor. The focus is on the instability generated by the geometry of the sub-channel.
Kurzfassung
Der Beitrag präsentiert eine Large Eddy Simulation bei hoher Reynolds-Zahl für einen Unterkanalsabschnitt in einem Brennstabbündel eines Druckwasserreacktors mit quadratischer Anordnung. Der Fokus liegt auf der Strömungsinstabilität, die durch die Geometrie des Unterkanals erzeugt wird.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Contents/Inhalt
- Contents
- Summaries/Kurzfassungen
- Summaries
- Editorial
- Actual status of the research alliances “Condensation Induced Water Hammer” and “Boiling processes in Pressurized Water Reactors”
- Technical Contributions/Fachbeiträge
- High-resolution two-phase flow measurement techniques for the generation of experimental data for CFD code qualification
- Condensation induced water hammer (CIWH) – relevance in the nuclear industry and state of science and technology
- Experiments of condensation-induced water hammers at the UniBw Munich
- Development of a 1 D hybrid HTC model using CFD simulations for the analysis of direct contact condensation as the driving force for water hammers
- 1D Models for Condensation Induced Water Hammer in Pipelines
- Modelling, simulation and experiments on boiling processes in pressurized water reactors
- CFD analysis of a void distribution benchmark in a rod bundle
- CFD-modelling of subcooled boiling
- On the pair correlation function in a bubble swarm
- Large Eddy Simulation of the shear flow instability in a rod-bundle assembly
- Small scale boiling experiments using two-dimensional imaging with high-speed camera and optical coherence tomography
- Validation of mechanistic CHF models using optical measuring techniques
- Experimental investigations of single and two-phase flow in a heated rod bundle
- CFD-Modeling of turbulent flows in rod bundle and comparison to experiments
- About the change in boiling behaviour of water with coolant additives in PWR
- Simulation of external reactor vessel cooling in a lumped-parameter code
