Evaluation of Convection Schemes for Thermal Hydraulic Analysis in a Liquid Metal Reactor

액체금속로 내부 열유동해석을 위한 대류항처리법 평가

  • 최석기 (한국원자력연구소 칼리머기술개발팀) ;
  • 김성오 (한국원자력연구소 칼리머기술개발팀) ;
  • 김의광 (한국원자력연구소 칼리머기술개발팀) ;
  • 어재혁 (한국원자력연구소 칼리머기술개발팀) ;
  • 최훈기 (창원대학교 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2002.10.01

Abstract

A numerical study has been peformed for evaluation of convection schemes for thermal hydraulic analysis in a liquid metal reactor Four convection schemes, HYBRID, QUICK, SMART and HLPA included in the CFX-4 code are considered. The performances of convection schemes are evaluated by applying them to the five test problems. The accuracy, stability and convergence are tested. It is shown that the HYBRID scheme is too diffusive, and the QUICK scheme exhibits overshoots and undershoots, and the SMART scheme shows convergence oscillations, and the HLPA scheme preserves the boundedness without causing convergence oscillations. The accuracies of SMART, QUICK and HLPA schemes are comparable. Thus, the use of HLPA scheme is highly recommended for thermal hydraulic analysis in a liquid metal reactor.

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