Natural and mixed convection in the cylindrical pool of TRIGA reactor

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• 作者：R. Henry ; I. Tiselj ; M. Matkovič
• 刊名：Heat and Mass Transfer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：53
• 期：2
• 页码：537-551
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Thermodynamics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-1181
• 卷排序：53

文摘

Temperature fields within the pool of the JSI TRIGA MARK II nuclear research reactor were measured to collect data for validation of the thermal hydraulics computational model of the reactor tank. In this context temperature of the coolant was measured simultaneously at sixty different positions within the pool during steady state operation and two transients. The obtained data revealed local peculiarities of the cooling water dynamics inside the pool and were used to estimate the coolant bulk velocity above the reactor core. Mixed natural and forced convection in the pool were simulated with a Computational Fluid Dynamics code. A relatively simple CFD model based on Unsteady RANS turbulence model was found to be sufficient for accurate prediction of the temperature fields in the pool during the reactor operation. Our results show that the simple geometry of the TRIGA pool reactor makes it a suitable candidate for a simple natural circulation benchmark in cylindrical geometry.