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CFD analysis of coolant flow in the nuclear reactor VVER440

KATOLICKÝ, J. FRÉLICH, J. JÍCHA, M.

Originální název

CFD analysis of coolant flow in the nuclear reactor VVER440

Typ

článek v časopise - ostatní, Jost

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

The paper introduces results of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of water flow at the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) outlet and under the RPV head. Several CFD calculations of the steady-state and dynamic processes involving forced and natural circulation of coolant are presented in the paper. In the steady-state re-gime, several calculations were performed for various number of the reactor coolant system (RCS) loops con-nected to the reactor and the results have been used to analyse the effect of the RCS configuration to the coolant flow at the reactor outlet and under the reactor vessel head. General flow patterns are described in the outlet part of the reactor and under the reactor vessel head and, also, the influence of a lower flow rate through the reactor on thermal homogeneity of coolant under the vessel head. Simultaneously, we discuss the influence of the cool-ant flow rate at the core outlet on the heat transfer from the under-head space. Unsteady calculation was also done for a reactor cool-down in the regime of natural circulation. The calculation conditions correspond with the data obtained from the experiments led in the frame of the cool-down process of VVER440 reactor at Mochovce nuclear power plant in 2003. In the calculations, the main attention was applied to establishing the basic trends in the cool-down of water content at the outlet part of the reactor and under the head of the reactor vessel.

Klíčová slova

reactor coolant system, nuclear reactor

Autoři

KATOLICKÝ, J.; FRÉLICH, J.; JÍCHA, M.

Rok RIV

2007

Vydáno

2. 11. 2007

Nakladatel

ZČU Plzeň

Místo

Plzeň

ISSN

1802-680X

Periodikum

Applied andComputational Mechanics

Ročník

1

Číslo

2

Stát

Česká republika

Strany od

499

Strany do

506

Strany počet

8

BibTex

@article{BUT44696,
  author="Jaroslav {Katolický} and Jan {Frélich} and Miroslav {Jícha}",
  title="CFD analysis of coolant flow in the nuclear reactor VVER440",
  journal="Applied andComputational Mechanics",
  year="2007",
  volume="1",
  number="2",
  pages="499--506",
  issn="1802-680X"
}