CFD-modeling of heat exchange beams with eutectic lead-bismuth alloy

Ardaniani V.G., Markova T.V., Aksenov A.A., Kochetkov M.A., Volkov V.Y., Golibrodo L.A., Krutikov A.A., Kudryavtsev O.V.
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Nowadays, active development of 4th generation nuclear reactors with liquid metal coolants takes place. Therefore, simulation of their elements and units in 3D modelling software are relevant. The thermal-hydraulic analysis of reactor units with liquid metal coolant is recognized as one of the most important directions of the complex of interconnected tasks on reactor unit parameters justification. The complexity of getting necessary information about operating conditions of reactor equipment with liquid-metal coolant on the base of experimental investigations requires the involvement of numerical simulation. The domestic CFD code FlowVision has been used as a research tool. FlowVision software has a certificate of the Scientific and Engineering Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety for the nuclear reactor safety simulations. Previously it has been proved that this simulation code had been successfully used for modelling processes in nuclear reactors with sodium coolant. Since at the moment the nuclear industry considers plants with lead-bismuth coolant as promising reactors, it is necessary to justify the FlowVision code suitability also for modeling the flow of such coolant, which is the goal of this work. The paper presents the results of lead-bismuth eutectic flow numerical simulation in the heat exchange tube bundle of NPP steam generator. The convergence studies on a grid and step have been carried out, turbulence model has been selected, hydraulic resistance coefficients of lattices have been determined and simulations with and without $k_\theta^{}$-$e_\theta^{}$ model are compared within the framework of fluid dynamics and heat exchange modeling in the heat-exchange tube bundle. According to the results of the study, it was found that the results of the calculation using the $k_\theta^{}$-$e_\theta^{}$ turbulence model are more precisely consistent with the correlations. A cross-verification with STAR-CCM+ software has been performed as an additional verification on the accuracy of the results, the results obtained are within the error limits of the correlations used for comparison.

Keywords: nuclear power engineering, computational fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer
Citation in English: Ardaniani V.G., Markova T.V., Aksenov A.A., Kochetkov M.A., Volkov V.Y., Golibrodo L.A., Krutikov A.A., Kudryavtsev O.V. CFD-modeling of heat exchange beams with eutectic lead-bismuth alloy // Computer Research and Modeling, 2023, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 861-875
Citation in English: Ardaniani V.G., Markova T.V., Aksenov A.A., Kochetkov M.A., Volkov V.Y., Golibrodo L.A., Krutikov A.A., Kudryavtsev O.V. CFD-modeling of heat exchange beams with eutectic lead-bismuth alloy // Computer Research and Modeling, 2023, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 861-875
DOI: 10.20537/2076-7633-2023-15-4-861-875
URL: http://crm-en.ics.org.ru/journal/article/3362/
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