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CFX-10 and RELAP5-3D simulations of coolant mixing phenomena in RPV of VVER-1000 reactors

  • 1. DIMNP, Univ. of Pisa (Italy)
  • 2. International Nuclear Safety Center of the Taras Shevchenko National Univ. of Kyiv (Ukraine)

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The present paper deals with numerical analyses of coolant mixing in the reactor pressure vessel of a VVER-1000 reactor, performed with the ANSYS CFX-10 CFD code and with the RELAP5-3D system code. In particular, the attention focused on the 'swirl' effect that has been observed to take place in the downcomer of such kind of reactor, with the aim of assessing the capability of the codes to predict that effect, and to understand the reasons for its occurrence. The results have been compared against experimental data from V1000CT-2 Benchmark. (author)

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Proceedings of the International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2006

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Nuclear Society of Slovenia
Imprint Place
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
ISBN
961-6207-26-3
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2006
Imprint Pagination
vp.
Journal Page Range
[11 p.]
Report number
INIS-SI--07-002

Conference

Title
International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2006
Dates
18-21 Sep 2006
Place
Portoroz (Slovenia)

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Notes
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