Numerical study on thermal-hydraulics of external reactor vessel cooling in high-power reactor using MARS-KS1.5 code: CFD-aided estimation of natural circulation flow rateopen access
- Authors
- Song, Minseop; Park Il Woong; Kim Eung Soo; Lee Yeon-Gun
- Issue Date
- Jan-2022
- Publisher
- KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
- Keywords
- External reactor vessel cooling; Natural circulation flow; MARS-KS1; 5; CFD analysis
- Citation
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, v.54, no.1, pp.72 - 83
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 54
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 72
- End Page
- 83
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/188890
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.net.2021.07.037
- ISSN
- 1738-5733
- Abstract
- This paper presents a numerical investigation of two-phase natural circulation flows established when external reactor vessel cooling is applied to a severe accident of the APR1400 reactor for the in-vessel retention of the core melt. The coolability limit due to external reactor vessel cooling is associated with the natural circulation flow rate around the lower head of the reactor vessel. For an elaborate prediction of the natural circulation flow rate using a thermal-hydraulic system code, MARS-KS1.5, a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation is conducted to estimate the flow rate and pressure distribution of a liquid-state coolant at the brink of significant void generation. The CFD calculation results are used to determine the loss coefficient at major flow junctions, where substantial pressure losses are expected, in the nodalization scheme of the MARS-KS code such that the single-phase flow rate is the same as that predicted via CFD simulations. Subsequently, the MARS-KS analysis is performed for the two-phase natural circulation regime, and the transient behavior of the main thermalhydraulic variables is investigated. (c) 2021 Korean Nuclear Society, Published by Elsevier Korea LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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