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http://dx.doi.org/10.6112/kscfe.2012.17.3.075

CFD ANALYSIS FOR HYDROGEN FLAME ACCELERATION IN THE IRWST ANNULUS TEST FACILITY  

Kang, H.S. (Thermal Hydraulics Safety Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Ha, K.S. (Severe Accident & PHWR Safety Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Kim, S.B. (Severe Accident & PHWR Safety Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Hong, S.W. (Severe Accident & PHWR Safety Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Journal of computational fluids engineering / v.17, no.3, 2012 , pp. 75-86 More about this Journal
Abstract
We developed a preliminary CFD analysis methodology to predict a pressure build up due to hydrogen flame acceleration in the APR1400 IRWST on the basis of CFD analysis results for test data of hydrogen flame acceleration in a scaled-down test facility performed by Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. We found out that ANSYS CFX-13 with a combustion model of the so-called turbulent flame closure and a model constant of A = 5.0, a grid model with a hexahedral cell length of 5.0 mm, and a time step size of $1.0{\times}10^{-5}$ s can be a useful tool to predict the pressure build up due to the hydrogen flame acceleration in the test results. Through the comparison of the simulated results with the test results, we found out that the proposed CFD analysis methodology enables us to predict the peak pressure within an error range of about ${\pm}29%$ for the hydrogen concentration of 19.5%. However, the error ranges of the peak pressure for the hydrogen concentration of 15.4% and 18.6% were about 66% and 51%, respectively. To reduce the error ranges in case of the hydrogen concentration of 15.4% and 18.6%, some uncertainties of the test conditions should be clarified. In addition, an investigation for a possibility of flame extinction in the test results should be performed.
Keywords
In-Containment Refueling Water Storage Tank; Hydrogen Combustion; Flame Acceleration;
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