A Numerical Study of the Turbulent Flow Characteristics in the Inlet Transition Square Duct Based on Roof Configuration

Configuration of the inlet transition square duct (hereinafter referred to as 'transition duct') for heat recovery steam generator (hereinafter referred to as 'HRSG') in combined cycle power plant is limited by the construction type of HRSG and plant site condition. The main purpose of the present study is to analyze the effect of a variation in turbulent flow pattern by roof slop angle change of transition duct for horizontal HRSG, which is influencing heat flux in heat transfer structure to the finned tube bank. In this study, a computational fluid dynamics(CFD) is applied to predict turbulent flow pattern and comparisons are made to 1/12th scale cold model test data for verification. Re-normalization group theory (RNG) based k-ε turbulent model, which improves the accuracy for rapidly strained flow and swirling flow in comparison with standard k-ε model, is used for the results cited in this study. To reduce the amount of computer resources required for modeling the finned tube bank, a porous media model is used