講演・口頭発表等

2002年10月19日

Advanced modeling of multicomponent vaporization/condensation phenomena for a reactor safety analysis code SIMMER-III

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE
  • Koji Morita
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  • Tatsuya Matsumoto
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  • Ryo Akasaka
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  • Kenji Fukuda
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  • Tohru Suzuki
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  • Yoshiharu Tobita
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  • Hidemasa Yamano
  • ,
  • Satoru Kondo

It is believed that the numerical simulation of thermal-hydraulic phenomena of multiphase, multicomponent flows in a reactor core is essential to investigate core disruptive accidents (CDAs) of liquid-metal fast reactors. A new multicomponent vaporization/condensation (V/C) model was developed to provide a generalized model for a fast reactor safety analysis code SIMMER-III, which analyzes relatively short-time-scale phenomena relevant to accident sequences of CDAs. The model characterizes the V/C process associated with phase transition through heat-transfer and mass-diffusion limited models to follow the time evolution of the reactor core under CDA conditions. The heat-transfer limited model describes the nonequilibrium phase-transition processes occurring at interfaces, while the mass-diffusion limited model is employed to represent effects of noncondensable gases and multicomponent mixture on V/C processes. Verification of the model and method employed in the multicomponent V/C model of SIMMER-III was performed successfully by analyzing two series of condensation experiments.

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0036390919&origin=inward
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1115/ICONE10-22229