Fully developed pipeline flow fast simulation model and application to a rod bundle subchannel

Hengwei Zhang, Yao Xiao*, Hanyang Gu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

For the fully developed pipeline flow, if the radial time-averaged velocity and radial pressure gradient can be ignored, the time-averaged Navier-Stokes equations can be simplified into a diffusion equation. Based on this, the Fully Developed Model (FDM) was proposed. The adiabatic FDM was applied to the simulation of the flow field in a rod bundle subchannel and got results consistent with that from the commercial CFD code. The short time calculation of FDM makes its application in system analysis codes becoming possible. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd.
Original languageEnglish
Article number110487
JournalAnnals of Nuclear Energy
Volume202
Online published16 Mar 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2024

Research Keywords

  • Flow field simulation
  • Fully developed pipeline flow
  • System analysis code

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