Assessment of applicability of two-fluid model code ACE-3D to heat transfer test of supercritical water flowing in an annular channel

環状流路における超臨界圧水熱伝達試験への二流体モデル解析コードACE-3Dの適用性評価

中塚 亨  ; 江里 幸一郎; 三澤 丈治; 関 洋治; 吉田 啓之  ; 大楽 正幸; 鈴木 哲; 榎枝 幹男; 高瀬 和之

Nakatsuka, Toru; Ezato, Koichiro; Misawa, Takeharu; Seki, Yohji; Yoshida, Hiroyuki; Dairaku, Masayuki; Suzuki, Satoshi; Enoeda, Mikio; Takase, Kazuyuki

超臨界圧水冷却炉の熱設計を効率的に行うためには、燃料集合体内の熱流動を評価することが重要である。原子力機構では、元来軽水炉内の二相流を対象として開発してきた三次元二流体モデル解析コードACE-3Dを改良し、超臨界領域での水の物性値を扱えるようにした。本報では、コードの予測性能評価のため、原子力機構で実施した単一模擬燃料棒まわりの垂直環状流路を流れる超臨界圧水伝熱試験の解析を行った。その結果、ACE-3Dコードは超臨界水冷却炉の燃料集合体を模擬した燃料棒の表面温度予測に適用可能であることが示された。

In order to perform efficiently the thermal design of the supercritical water reactor (SCWR), it is important to assess the thermal hydraulics in rod bundles of the core. Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been improved the three-dimensional two-fluid model analysis code ACE-3D, which has been developed originally for the two-phase flow thermal hydraulics of light water reactors, to handle the thermal hydraulic properties of water at supercritical region. In the present paper, heat transfer experiments of supercritical water flowing in a vertical annular channel around a heater pin, which was performed at JAEA, were analyzed with the improved ACE-3D to assess the prediction performance of the code. As a result, it was implied that the ACE-3D code may be applicable to prediction of wall temperatures of a single rod that simulates the fuel bundle geometry of SCWR core.