کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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655331 | 1457633 | 2014 | 14 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Recirculating flow patterns may affect drift flux parameters in rod bundles.
• A drift-flux correlation is developed considering low pressure and low liquid flow.
• Improvement over earlier correlations is demonstrated with a performance analysis.
• The new correlation is demonstrated as scalable to high pressure conditions.
A new drift-flux correlation has been developed to predict void fraction over a wide range of two-phase flow conditions in rod bundle geometries. An experimental database that represents low liquid flow and low pressure conditions in a scaled 8 × 8 rod bundle test facility is emphasized for this work. At these conditions, recirculating flow patterns may affect two-phase flow characteristics. Such effects may not be appropriately considered in earlier rod bundle correlations for drift velocity and distribution parameter. In the current approach, an existing drift-flux correlation that accounts for the effect of recirculating flow as two-phase flow regimes transition from bubbly to cap-bubbly flow is incorporated to determine distribution parameter. A performance analysis demonstrates that the proposed correlation improves upon existing correlations with an average relative error of ±4.5% when predicting the database utilized for in this work. The new correlation is also demonstrated to scale appropriately to prototypic plant conditions.
Journal: International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow - Volume 48, August 2014, Pages 1–14