Numerical Simulation of Fluid Mixing and Stratification in Large Space

For AP1000 reactor, passive containment cooling system is a vital way to release heat to the environment, so an accurate prediction of distribution of temperature or density in large layered space plays an important role on the reactor optimization design and safety analysis. This paper investigates in comparing the results of different kinds of models in FLUENT with the experiment results in order to find out a more effective model and more suitable mesh number to simulate the mixing and stratification phenomenon. When LOCA or MSLB occurs in containment, the radius, position, and angle of the break can affect the containment mixing and thermal stratification. So this paper also studies the influence of height of the break and angle of the break on stratification with Fluent, and makes comparative analysis with the experiment results.