Flow Distribution and Pressure Loss in Subchannels of a Wire-Wrapped 37-pin Rod Bundle for a Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor
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- 作者：Seok-Kyu Chang ; Dong-Jin Euh ; djeuh@kaeri.re.kr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Hae Seob Choi ; Hyungmo Kim ; Sun Rock Choi ; Hyeong-Yeon Lee
- 关键词：Rod Bundle ; Iso-kinetic Sampling ; Pressure Loss ; Split Factor ; Subchannel ; Subchannel Analysis Code ; Wire-wrapped
- 刊名：Nuclear Engineering and Technology
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：April 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：48
- 期：2
- 页码：376-385
- 全文大小：2513 K
文摘
A hexagonally arrayed 37-pin wire-wrapped rod bundle has been chosen to provide the experimental data of the pressure loss and flow rate in subchannels for validating subchannel analysis codes for the sodium-cooled fast reactor core thermal/hydraulic design. The iso-kinetic sampling method has been adopted to measure the flow rate at subchannels, and newly designed sampling probes which preserve the flow area of subchannels have been devised. Experimental tests have been performed at 20–115% of the nominal flow rate and 60°C (equivalent to Re ∼ 37,100) at the inlet of the test rig. The pressure loss data in three measured subchannels were almost identical regardless of the subchannel locations. The flow rate at each type of subchannel was identified and the flow split factors were evaluated from the measured data. The predicted correlations and the computational fluid dynamics results agreed reasonably with the experimental data.