Published May 2011 | Version v1
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A Stabilizing Numerical Scheme of the CUPID for a Fast Transient Two Phase Flow

  • 1. Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Pusan National University, Busan (Korea, Republic of)

Description

A high resolution thermal-hydraulic code, CUPID, has been developed at KAERI for the application to a component-scale analysis of the reactor coolant system. Two-fluid three-field governing equations are discretized using an unstructured finite volume method (FVM). The solution algorithm is based on the semi-implicit method, where the momentum equation is solved explicitly and the pressure is calculated using the scalar equations. In this paper, a fast and robust solution algorithm of CUPID is presented for the calculation of a fast transient two phase flow where the interfacial heat transfer coefficient changes sharply. The numerical scheme was verified by a calculation of a two dimensional conceptual problem of a blowdown and refill event

Part of:
Proceedings of the KNS spring meeting

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
KNS
Imprint Place
Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the KNS spring meeting
Imprint Pagination
[1 CD-ROM]
Journal Page Range
[2 p.]

Conference

Title
2011 spring meeting of the KNS
Dates
26-27 May 2011
Place
Taebaek (Korea, Republic of)

INIS

Country of Publication
Korea, Republic of
Country of Input or Organization
Korea, Republic of
INIS RN
42099218
Subject category
S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
ALGORITHMS; BLOWDOWN; COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; REACTOR COOLING SYSTEMS; THERMAL HYDRAULICS; TRANSIENTS; TWO-PHASE FLOW
Descriptors DEC
COOLING SYSTEMS; ENERGY SYSTEMS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUID FLOW; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MECHANICS; REACTOR COMPONENTS

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Notes
3 refs, 3 figs