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ASSESSMENT OF STABILITY MAPS FOR HEATED CHANNELS WITH SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS VERSUS THE PREDICTIONS OF A SYSTEM CODE

  • Ambrosini, Walter (Universita di Pisa, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica Nucleare e della Produzione Via Diotisalvi) ;
  • Sharabi, Medhat Beshir (Universita di Pisa, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica Nucleare e della Produzione Via Diotisalvi)
  • Published : 2007.10.30
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Abstract

The present work is aimed at further discussing the effectiveness of dimensionless parameters recently proposed for the analysis of flow stability in heated channels with supercritical fluids. In this purpose, after presenting the main motivations for the introduction of these parameters in place of previously proposed ones, additional information on the theoretical bases and on the consequences of this development is provided. Stability maps, generated by an in-house program adapted from a previous application to boiling channels, are also shown for different combinations of the operating parameters. The maps are obtained as contour plots of an amplification parameter obtained from numerical discretization and subsequent linearization of governing equations; as such, they provide a quantitatively clear perspective of the effect of different boundary conditions on the stability of heated channels with supercritical fluids. In order to assess the validity of the assumptions at the basis of the in-house model, supporting calculations have been performed making use of the RELAP5/MOD3.3 computer code, detecting the values of the dimensionless parameters at the threshold for the occurrence of instability for a heated channel representative of SCWR proposed core configurations. The obtained results show reasonable agreement with the maps, supporting the applicability of the proposed scaling parameters for describing the dynamic behaviour of heated channels with supercritical fluids.

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