Published date: Feb 21 2018

Journal Title: KnE Engineering

Issue title: XIII International Youth Scientific and Practical Conference "FUTURE OF ATOMIC ENERGY - AtomFuture 2017"

Pages: 240-248

DOI: 10.18502/keg.v3i3.1623

Sataev A.A.

Duntsev A.V.

Simulation of mixing flows of different temperature, density structure has important implications for the assessment of thermal reliability of reactor plants, thermo-cyclic pulsations, and safety analysis. To study the mixing model was used for the mixing, which was visualized by using imaging methods. The injection of cold water into the hot volume was examined, which simulates the flow of the coolant in the pressurized-water reactor. The obtained results have given the basis for further analysis of non-isothermal mixing flows. However, the model is still far from the real geometry of the reactor plant. The construction of a reactor reduced model with a simulation of one loop of a coolant flow with low settings has been developed for a more detailed study of the processes of non-isothermal mixing flows has planned. In the future, these data will be used in the programs of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). 

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