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Authors & Affiliations
Kuzina Yu.A., Sorokin A.P., Denisova N.A.
A.I. Leipunsky Institute for Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk, Russia
Kuzina Yu.A. – Director of Nuclear Energetic Department, Cand. Sci. (Tech.).
Sorokin A.P. – Chief Researcher, Dr. Sci. (Tech.). Contacts: 1, pl. Bondarenko, Obninsk, Kaluga region, Russia, 249033. Tel.: +7 (484) 399-84-47; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Denisova N.A. – Lead Engineer.
Abstract
The formation of velocity and temperature fields in the fuel assemblies of fast reactor core occurs under the influence various factors. It is shown, that the most important factors include a complex multiply connected geometry, subject to deformation during the campaign under the influence of temperature non-uniformity and radiation effects. The results of studies of the velocity fields and shear stress, turbulence microstructure are presented. An intensification of turbulent momentum transfer in channels in azimuthal and radial directions in the area of gaps between the rods is demonstrated. The performed analysis is indicate that there are a significant difference between the experimental dependences for turbulent momentum transfer coefficients in the radial and azimuthal directions and calculated within the framework of semi-empirical models of turbulent momentum transfer as well as the anisotropy coefficients of the turbulent momentum transfer in rod bundles. The results of benchmark on the fuel assembly thermohydraulics showed that the common commercial codes describe experimental data only approximately. It is shown, that the intensification of turbulent momentum transfer in the channels of rod bundles is due to the appearance of large-scale turbulent momentum transfer (secondary flows). The contribution of large-scale turbulent momentum transfer to the turbulent momentum transfer coefficients in the channels of rod bundles is calculated. The dependence for coefficient of inter-channel turbulent exchange of momentum is obtained and the intensification of inter-channel turbulent exchange in close-packed rod lattices is explained. A dependence for the dissimilarity coefficients of forced inter-channel convective exchange of momentum and mass, as well as energy and mass in rod bundles spaced by wire winding is obtained. The calculation methods and the numerical modeling results for temperature regime of fuel assemblies with randomly distributed initial parameters by the Monte Carlo method are presented as well as the thermomechanical analysis of the temperature field in the fuel assemblies during the campaign. An idea about the equilibrium configuration of a rod bundle in a hexagonal jacket during irradiation, the stress-strain state of an individual fuel rod and a fuel assembly jacket is obtained. The tasks of further investigations discussed.
Keywords
hydrodynamics, heat transfer, turbulent flows, liquid metals, fast reactors, active zone, fuel assemblies, fuel rods
Article Text (PDF, in Russian)
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