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IDENTIFICATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL VOID PROFILE IN A LARGE SLAB GEOMETRY USING AN IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD

  • Euh, D.J. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, S. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, B.D. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Park, W.M. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, K.D. (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Bae, J.H. (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, J.Y. (Handong Global University) ;
  • Yun, B.J. (Busan National University)
  • Received : 2013.03.07
  • Accepted : 2013.05.16
  • Published : 2013.10.25
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Abstract

Multi-dimensional two-phase phenomena occur in many industrial applications, particularly in a nuclear reactor during steady operation or a transient period. Appropriate modeling of complicated behavior induced by a multi-dimensional flow is important for the reactor safety analysis results. SPACE, a safety analysis code for thermal hydraulic systems which is currently being developed, was designed to have the capacity of multi-dimensional two-phase thermo-dynamic phenomena induced in the various phases of a nuclear system. To validate the performance of SPACE, a two-dimensional two-phase flow test was performed with slab geometry of the test section having a scale of $1.43m{\times}1.43m{\times}0.11m$. The test section has three inlet and three outlet nozzles on the bottom and top gap walls, respectively, and two outlet nozzles installed directly on the surface of the slab. Various kinds of two-dimensional air/water flows were simulated by selecting combinations of the inlet and outlet nozzles. In this study, two-dimensional two-phase void fraction profiles were quantified by measuring the local gap impedance at 225 points. The flow conditions cover various flow regimes by controlling the flow rate at the inlet boundary. For each selected inlet and outlet nozzle combination, the water flow rate ranged from 2 to 20 kg/s, and the air flow rate ranged from 2.0 to 20 g/s, which corresponds to 0.4 to 4 m/s and 0.2 to 2.3 m/s of the superficial liquid and gas velocities based on the inlet port area, respectively.

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