Study of severe accident natural gas circulation with the CDF code TRIO_U.

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11/11/2002

H. Mutelle, U. Bieder, Technical meeting on use of CFD codes for safety analysis of reactor systems, including containment, 11-14 /11 2002, Pise (Italy).

Type de document > *Congrès/colloque
Mots clés publication scientifique > accidents dans les REP , accident
Unité de recherche > Laboratoire de Physique des Accidents Graves (LPAG)
Auteurs > [et al.] , MUTELLE Hervé

This paper reports the preliminary studies carried out with the CFD code Trio_U to study the natural gas circulation that can establish in the primary circuit of a pressurized water reactor during a high-pressure severe accident scenario. Two types of 3D simulations have been performed on one loop using a LES approach. In the first type of calculations, the gas flow in the hot leg has been investigated with a simplified representation of the reactor vessel and the Steam Generator (SG) tubes. Structured and unstructured meshing has been tested on the full-scale geometry with and without radiative heat transfer modelling between walls and gas. The second type of calculations deals with the gas circulation in the SG. The first results show a good agreement with the available experimental data and provide some confidence in the Trio_U code to simulate complex natural flows. This work has been done with the collaboration of the CEA.

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