Determination of pressure fields in a BWR suppression pool by means of Green's function and comparison with method of images and a finite difference solution

The effects of suppression pool containment boundaries on the flow fields produced by air/steam blowdown have been obtained by the exact solution for a point source in an annulus, i.e., the Green's function for this geometry, by the method of images (MOI), which solves Laplace's equation in a finite rectangular pool trough by use of a series of point sources and sinks, and by the finite difference technique with singularities developed by Chu and Raymont. Comparison shows very good agreement. (orig.)