The wire effect in a wire-wrapped 37-pin fuel assembly mock-up of a Japanese loop-type sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), Monju, has been investigated through a numerical analysis using a general-purpose commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, CFX. Complicated and vortical flow phenomena in the wire-wrapped 37-pin fuel assembly were captured by a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) flow simulation with a shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model. The CFD results show good agreement with Rehme’s friction factor correlation model, which can consider the number of wire-wrapped pins in the fuel assembly. Three-dimensional multi-scale vortex structures start to be formed by an interaction between secondary flows around each wire-wrapped pin. Large-scale and small-scale vortex structures are generated in the corner and edge, and interior sub-channel, respectively. The behavior of the large-scale vortex structures in the corner and edge sub-channel are closely related to the relative position between the hexagonal duct wall and the wire spacer. Regardless of the relative position between the adjacent rod and wire spacer, a small-scale vortex is axially developed in the interior sub-channels. Furthermore, a driving force on each wire spacer surface is closely related to the relative position between the hexagonal duct wall and wire spacer. It is expected that the multi-scale vortex structures in the fuel assembly play a significant role in the convective heat transfer characteristics.
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ASME/JSME/KSME 2015 Joint Fluids Engineering Conference
July 26–31, 2015
Seoul, South Korea
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Jae-Ho Jeong,
Jae-Ho Jeong
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea
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Jin Yoo,
Jin Yoo
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea
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Kwi-Lim Lee,
Kwi-Lim Lee
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea
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Kwi-Seok Ha
Kwi-Seok Ha
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea
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Jae-Ho Jeong
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea
Jin Yoo
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea
Kwi-Lim Lee
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea
Kwi-Seok Ha
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea
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AJKFluids2015-09805, V01AT09A023; 10 pages
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April 4, 2016
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Jeong, J, Yoo, J, Lee, K, & Ha, K. "Investigation of Wire Effect in a Wire-Wrapped 37-Pin Fuel Assembly." Proceedings of the ASME/JSME/KSME 2015 Joint Fluids Engineering Conference. Volume 1A: Symposia, Part 2. Seoul, South Korea. July 26–31, 2015. V01AT09A023. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/AJKFluids2015-09805
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