Development of analytical model for evaluating temperature fluctuation in coolant(XI); Validation of the evaluation model for thermally fluid-structure interaction phenomena

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A numerical evaluation system, which is consisted of four codes, AQUA, DINUS-3, THEMIS and BEMSET has been developed for thermal striping phenomena. To validate the system for the phenomena, thermally fluid - structure interaction analysis was carried out using a existing sodium experiment of parallel impinging jet simulating the outlet region of an LMFBR core. Calculational results on the RMS values of temperature fluctuation, the histograms of temperature amplitudes and frequencies, the auto-power spectral density distributions of temperature fluctuations and the damping characteristics of temperature fluctuations showed good agreement with the measured values under the test conditions of various flow velocity. From the comparisons with the experimental data, it was concluded that the numerical evaluation system is applicable to the evaluation of thermally fluid - structure interaction phenomena related to the thermal striping.