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NEAR-WALL GRID DEPENDENCY OF CFD SIMULATION FOR A SUBCOOLED BOILING FLOW USING WALL BOILING MODEL  

In, W.K. (한국원자력연구원)
Shin, C.H. (한국원자력연구원)
Chun, T.H. (한국원자력연구원)
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Journal of computational fluids engineering / v.15, no.3, 2010 , pp. 24-31 More about this Journal
Abstract
boiling flow in vertical tube. The multiphase flow model used in this CFD analysis is the two-fluid model in which liquid(water) and gas(vapour) are considered as continuous and dispersed fluids, respectively. A wall boiling model is also used to simulate the subcooled boiling heat transfer at the heated wall boundary. The diameter and heated length of tube are 0.0154 m and 2 m, respectively. The system pressure in tube is 4.5 MPa and the inlet subcooling is 60 K. The near-wall grid size in the non-dimensional wall unit for lqiuid phase ($y^+_{w,l}$) was examined from 101 to 313 at the outlet boundary. The CFD calculations predicted the void distributions as well as the liquid and wall temperatures in tube. The predicted axial variations of the void fraction and the wall temperature are compared with the measured ones. The CFD prediction of the wall temperature is shown to slightly depend on the near-wall grid size but the axial void prediction has somewhat large dependency. The CFD prediction was found to show a better agreement with the measured one for the large near-wall grid, e.g., $y^+_{w,l}$ > 300 at the tube exit.
Keywords
CFD; Subcooled Boiling; Wall Boiling Model; Near-Wall Grid; Two-phase Flow Model; Interface; Void Fraction;
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