Nuclear Reactor Engineering: Reactor Systems Engineering, Springer; 4th edition, 1994, ISBN: 978-0412985317, W.S.C. In the high-quality region, the crisis occurs at a lower heat flux. (2006). Eng. The ratio of the integral of linear power along the fuel rod on which minimum departure from nucleate boiling ratio occurs (during AOOs) , to the average fuel rod power in the core. (F) Histogram for maximum wall VOF. Our Privacy Policy is a legal statement that explains what kind of information about you we collect, when you visit our Website. SAND2014-4253. The probability density function (PDF) is: where μ, σ2, and σ are the expectation, variance and standard deviation, respectively. At normal the fuel surface is effectively cooled by boiling coolant. The published works on the validation of CFD code for two-phase flow were carried out based on the deterministic analysis by comparing the calculated and experimental nominal inputs and outputs, which is not sufficient for code validation since it didn't consider the inevitable uncertainty in the experiment measurements. The temperature of fluid at inlet has dramatic impacts on the averaged outlet VOF, NVG position, and VOF ratio, while has little impacts on the pressure drop, averaged wall temperature and maximum wall temperature, which is because of the dependency of inlet enthalpy on the inlet temperature. SIAM/ASA J. Therefore internal forced convection boiling is commonly referred to as two-phase flow. We have assumed a single-phase convective heat transfer without any phase change. 5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG. From the point of view of code validation, the uncertainties introduced by the boundary conditions should be analyzed in the first place since the experiment data are obtained with inevitable uncertainties. The predicted results were compared with the experiment data to validate and assess the performance of codes. Thus, the distributions can be assumed to be normal if the real ones are unknown and this assumption works good in statistics (Chiasson, 2013). Safety 81, 23–69. Therefore power distribution within the core must be properly limited. The regimes of boiling and the heat flux curve are similar to the ones in pool boiling. In fully developed nucleate boiling with saturated coolant, the wall temperature is determined by local heat flux and pressure and is only slightly dependent on the Reynolds number. The main flow regimes in vertical tubes are shown in the table. a viscosity correction factor μ/μwall) must be taken into account, for example, as Sieder and Tate recommend. Li et al. Quantif. Thermal Engineering, Copyright 2020 Thermal Engineering | All Rights Reserved |, during evaporation in the high-quality region. Moreover, the p-values resulted from normal distribution test show that the pressure drop, averaged outlet VOF, averaged wall temperature, ratio of maximum and averaged VOFs at outlet and wall maximum VOF follow the normal distribution well while the position of NVG doesn't. Dakota, A Multilevel Parallel Object-Oriented Framework for Design Optimization, Parameter Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Sensitivity Analysis: Version 6.6 Theory Manual. Thus, a User-Defined Function (UDF) is compiled into standard FLUENT solver to call the IAPWS dynamics link library for liquid and vapor properties. 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Copyright 2020 Nuclear Power for Everybody | All Rights Reserved | Powered by, Single-phase Forced Convection – Heat Transfer Correlation, Nucleate Boiling Correlations – Flow Boiling, Critical Heat Flux for DNB – Correlations, Departure from Nucleate Boiling Ratio – DNBR, during evaporation in the high-quality region. J. R. Lamarsh, A. J. Baratta, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, 3d ed., Prentice-Hall, 2001, ISBN: 0-201-82498-1. Note that, there is an assumption that cold wall deteriorates heat transfer compared to channel with all sides heated at the same bulk exit enthalpy. Prediction of CHF in vertical heated tubes based on CFD methodology. The Cookies Statement is part of our Privacy Policy. In the past two decades, CFD codes based on the Eulerian two-fluid model have been employed to simulate the two-phase flow in the nuclear reactor system. Theodore L. Bergman, Adrienne S. Lavine, Frank P. Incropera. As was written, the phenomena, that cause the deterioration of heat transfer are different for PWRs and for BWRs. One of the most well known design correlations for predicting departure from nucleate boiling is the W-3 correlation developed at the Westinghouse Atomic Power Division by Tong. In this article a new model, based on asymptotic addition of the two boiling components, is introduced. • The boiling in this case exhibits the combined effects of convection and pool boiling. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 7th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011. As can be seen, the effects of mass flux and heat flux on the subcooled boiling flow are much large than these of inlet temperature and system pressure. Effects of turbulence models on forced convection subcooled boiling in vertical pipe. The uncertainties on the two-phase parameters caused by the input boundary conditions have been investigated by using an uncertainty propagation method coupled with an improved Monte-Carlo based sampling method, Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) (Helton and Davis, 2003). It must be noted, the nucleate pool boiling correlation of Forster and Zuber (1955) is used to calculate the nucleate boiling heat transfer coefficient, hFZ and the turbulent flow correlation of Dittus-Boelter (1930) is used to calculate the liquid-phase convective heat transfer coefficient, hl. 2) Uncertainties from heat flux and mass flux have more significant impacts on the subcooled boiling characteristics than these from inlet temperature and system pressure. In this work, the sample size is as large as 740, which is the sample size calculated by Wilks's equation with fourteenth order of accuracy. High-speed flow visualization was conducted to picture the flow patterns during the experiment. Internal flow boiling is much more complicated in nature than external flow boiling because there is no free surface for the vapor to escape, and thus both the liquid and the vapor are forced to flow together. This phenomenon is known as the “dryout” and it is directly associated with changes in flow pattern during evaporation. Due to the mass movement the rate of energy transfer is higher. Boiling and condensation differ from other forms of convection in that they depend on the latent heat of vaporization, which is very high for common pressures, therefore large amounts of heat can be transferred during boiling and condensation essentially at constant temperature. 1) the pressure drop between inlet and outlet boundaries to quantify the flow resistance characteristics; 2) the averaged vapor fraction at the outlet, which is used to descript the total net vapor generation in the pipe; 3) the averaged wall temperature, which can present the heat transfer capacity at a boiling surface; 4) the location of net vapor generation, which is significant for the flow instability; 5) the ratio between maximum and averaged vapor volume fractions (VOFs) at outlet to represent the non-uniformity of the VOF distribution; 6) and the maximum wall VOF, which is associated with the boiling crisis according to the bubble crowding theory (Weisman and Pei, 1983). 285°C at 6.8 MPa), subcooled nucleate boiling begins. The minimum sample requirements for first, second and third order accuracy are 93, 153, and 208, respectively. DNBR must be higher than one). This significantly reduces the convection coefficient, since the vapor layer has significantly lower heat transfer ability. Bubbles nucleate in the superheated thermal boundary layer on the heated wall but tend to condense in the subcooled bulk. 2) You may not distribute or commercially exploit the content, especially on another website. The transition from nucleate boiling to film boiling is known as the “boiling crisis”. When latent heat is added, no temperature change occurs. See also: Engineering Data Book III, Thome, J.R., Wolverine Tube Inc, 2004. In this chapter, we will study flow boiling in a vertical channel of a boiling water reactor. Special Reference: Tong, L. S., Weisman, Joel. Nuclear and Particle Physics. 1) The sample size determined by Wilks's theorem with first order or second order of accuracy is not sufficient to get convergence results for complicated subcooled boiling from the view of statistics. Liu, Y. (A) Cross section averaged VOF. The process occurs also in modern high pressure forced circulation boilers. Correlations used to determine heat transfer coefficients in two phase flow are described below. Operation beyond the Nuclear Enthalpy Rise Hot Channel Factor – FNΔH could invalidate core power distribution assumptions used in these analyses (Safety Analyses and Safety Limits derivation). Further agglomeration of slugs, cause by further increasing void fraction causes separation of the phases into annular patterns wherein liquid concentrates at the channel wall and vapor flows in the central core of the vertical channel. Boiling and condensation differ from other forms of convection in that they depend on the latent heat of vaporization, which is very high for common pressures, therefore large amounts of heat can be transferred during boiling and condensation essentially at constant temperature. The observed flow structures are defined as two-phase flow patternsand these have particular identifying characteristics. For fully developed (hydrodynamically and thermally) turbulent flow in a smooth circular tube, the local Nusselt number may be obtained from the well-known Dittus-Boelter equation. *Correspondence: Tenglong Cong, tlcong@hrbeu.edu.cn, Front. Prošek, A., Končar, B., and Leskovar, M. (2016). (D) Correlation coefficients between NVG position and boundary conditions. Thermal Sci. Data flow chart for the uncertainty analysis. In this chapter we focus on convective heat transfer associated with the change in phase of a fluid. for PWRs temperature rises are higher and more rapid).