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Simulation of Turbulent Flow in a Triangular Subchannel of a Bare Rod Bundle with Nonlinear k-$\varepsilon$ Models  

Myong Hyon Kook (국민대 기계자동차공학부)
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Journal of computational fluids engineering / v.8, no.2, 2003 , pp. 8-15 More about this Journal
Abstract
Three nonlinear κ-ε models with the wall function method are applied to the fully developed turbulent flow in a triangular subchannel of a bare rod bundle. Typical predicted quantities such as axial and secondary velocities, turbulent kinetic energy and wall shear stress are compared in details both qualitatively and quantitatively with both each other and experimental data. The nonlinear κ-ε models by Speziale[1] and Myong and Kasagi[2] are found to be capable of predicting accurately noncircular duct flows involving turbulence-driven secondary motion. The nonlinear κ-ε model by Shih et aL.[3] adopted in a commercial code is found to be unable to predict accurately noncircular flows with the prediction level of secondary flows one order less than that of the experiment.
Keywords
Nonlinear κ-ε model; Turbulence-driven secondary flow; Anisotropy; Subchannel; Rod Bundle; Simulation;
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