Direct numerical simulation of gas entrainment from free-surface

Kunugi, Tomoaki*; Kawara, Zensaku*; Ose, Yasuo*; Ito, Kei; Sakai, Takaaki

In order to design the compact FBR with higher coolant velocity compared to the conventional reactor designs, it is necessary to clarify a criterion of a cover gas entrainment (GE) from the free-surface of the coolant pool in the reactor vessel to the heat exchanger through the hot leg. Three flow regimes are considered as the GE phenomena: a vortex dimple, a waterfall and a surface disturbance. In this study, to evaluate the GE vortex phenomena: especially for the vortex dimple, the DNS based on the MARS (Multi-interfaces Advection and Reconstruction Solver (Kunugi, 2001)) were performed for simulating the unsteady vortex-shedding experiment accompanied with the GE phenomena (Okamoto et al., 2004). The applicability of the present DNS to predict the onset of the GE vortex phenomena is discussed.