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Investigation of temperature gradient characteristics for thermal stratification interface in upper plenum of fast reactors

Ohno, Shuji  ; Sugahara, Akihiro*; Oki, Hiroshi*; Ohshima, Hiroyuki

Parametric analyses were carried out as numerical experiments to clarify the basic characteristics of thermal stratification behavior in upper plenum of fast reactors. The analyses were performed changing hypothetically the analytical conditions of sodium flow rate, sodium temperature, and the size of analyzed upper plenum, by using a commercial CFD code FLUENT Ver. 6.3 and the RNG k-$$varepsilon$$ turbulence model. The results provided the suggestion that the averaged sodium ascending velocity in the reactor upper plenum region and the sodium temperature difference before and after the transient initiation would be the dominant factors to determine temperature gradient of thermal stratification interface. Further, it was implied that appropriate spatial mesh arrangement in vertical direction around the stratification interface is significant to obtain the accurate numerical solution of interface temperature gradient.

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