Published 2011
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Flow induced vibration forces on a fuel rod by LES CFD analysis
- 1. Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, Columbia, South Carolina (United States)
- 2. CD-adapto, Melville, New York (United States)
Description
The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the feasibility of use of CFD Large Eddy Simulation (LES) modeling techniques in CD-adapco CFD code STAR-CCM+ to calculate the instantaneous stress tensor on the fuel rod wall and then utilize these data for mechanical calculations. Transient hydraulic forces on the fuel rod resulting from the CFD model are linked to the Westinghouse VITRAN code to predict fuel rod vibration response. The coupled CFD/mechanical solution has provided a reasonable prediction of fuel rod vibration and a more accurate representation of all the important physics and excitation forces. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Canadian Nuclear Society
- Imprint Place
- Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
- ISBN
- 978-1-926773-05-6
- Imprint Title
- The 14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermalhydraulics (NURETH-14)
- Imprint Pagination
- 766 Megabytes
- Journal Page Range
- [12 p.]
Conference
- Title
- 14. International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermalhydraulics
- Acronym
- NURETH-14
- Dates
- 25-30 Sep 2011
- Place
- Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Canada
- Country of Input or Organization
- Canada
- INIS RN
- 47071172
- Subject category
- S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; FLUID MECHANICS; FUEL RODS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION; MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; FUEL ELEMENTS; MECHANICS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; SIMULATION
Optional Information
- Notes
- Paper NURETH14-365, 8 refs., 1 tab., 14 figs.