YAO Qiang, GUO Xueyan, YANG Fan, WANG Zhiyuan. Numerical analysis of local flow and heat transfer of FCC domain in pebble bed reactor[J]. CIESC Journal, 2019, 70(S2): 161-168
YAO Qiang, GUO Xueyan, YANG Fan, WANG Zhiyuan. Numerical analysis of local flow and heat transfer of FCC domain in pebble bed reactor[J]. CIESC Journal, 2019, 70(S2): 161-168DOI: 10.11949/0438-1157.20190622.
Numerical analysis of local flow and heat transfer of FCC domain in pebble bed reactor
The existence of hot spots on the surface of pebbles in pebble reactors affects the safety of the reactor and its formation is closely related to the local flow of coolant at the pebble scale. In order to ensure the accuracy and physical reality of the solution
the large eddy simulation (LES) method and the fully structured grid are applied to conduct the numerical analysis of the local flow and heat transfer of the face-centered cubic (FCC) unit in the area contact arrangement mode. The characteristics of unsteady flow and its effect on convective heat transfer are analyzed. The time-averaged temperature distribution indicates that there are stable hot spots on the surface of pebbles
and it is also found that the instantaneous temperature fluctuation on the surface of pebble is large
and there are also instantaneous hot spots where the temperature is significantly higher than the time-averaged temperature.
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