Published June 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Study of mixed convection in sodium pool

  • 1. Qinghua Univ., Beijing, BJ (China)

Description

The mixed convection phenomena in the sodium pool of fast reactor have been studied systematically by the two dimensional modeling method. A generalized concept of circumferential line in the cylindrical coordinates was proposed to overcome the three dimensional effect induced by the pool geometry in an analysis of two dimensional modeling. A method of sub-step in time was developed for solving the turbulent equations. The treatments on the boundary condition for the auxiliary velocity field have been proposed, and the explanation of allowing the flow function method to be used in the flow field in presence of a mass source term was given. As examples of verification, the experiments were conducted with water flow in a rectangular cavity. The results from theoretical analysis were applied to the numerical computation for the mixed convection in the cavity. The mechanism of stratified flow in the cavity was studied. A numerical calculation was carried out for the mixed convection in hot plenum of a typical fast reactor

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Journal Title
Chinese Journal of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Journal Volume
15
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 136-148.
ISSN
0258-0918
CODEN
HYGODG