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http://dx.doi.org/10.6112/kscfe.2011.16.3.066

HIGH Ra NUMBER NATURAL CONVECTION IN A TRIANGULAR POOL WITH A HEAT GENERATION  

Kim, Jong-Tae (한국원자력연구원, 중대사고중수로안전연구부)
Park, Rae-Joon (한국원자력연구원, 중대사고중수로안전연구부)
Kim, Hwan-Yeol (한국원자력연구원, 중대사고중수로안전연구부)
Hong, Seong-Wan (한국원자력연구원, 중대사고중수로안전연구부)
Song, Jin-Ho (한국원자력연구원, 중대사고중수로안전연구부)
Kim, Sang-Baik (한국원자력연구원, 중대사고중수로안전연구부)
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Journal of computational fluids engineering / v.16, no.3, 2011 , pp. 66-74 More about this Journal
Abstract
A fluid in an enclosure can be heated by electric heating, chemical reaction, or fission heat. In order to remove the volumetric heat of the fluid, the walls surrounding the enclosure must be cooled. In this case, a natural convection occurs in the pool of the fluid, and it has a dominant role in heat transfer to the surrounding walls. It can augment the heat transfer rates tens to hundreds times larger than conductive heat transfer. The heat transfer by a natural convection in a regular shape such as a square cavity or semi-circular pool has been studied experimentally and numerically for many years. A pool of an inverted triangular shape with 10 degree inclined bottom walls has a good cooling performance because of enhanced boiling critical heat flux (CHF) compared to horizontal downward surface. The coolability of the pool is determined by comparing the thermal load from the pool and the maximum heat flux removable by cooling mechanism such as radiative or boiling heat transfer on the pool boundaries. In order to evaluate the pool coolability, it is important to correctly expect the thermal load by a natural convection heat transfer of the pool. In this study, turbulence models with modifications for buoyancy effect were validated for unsteady natural convections by volumetric heating. And natural convection in the triangular pool was evaluated by using the models.
Keywords
Natural Convection; Volumetric Heat Generation; Triangular Pool; Unsteady; Coolability; Rayleigh Number; Nusselt Number;
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