Development of a wastage environment evaluation model for a sodium-water reaction analysis code SERAPHIM

Uchibori, Akihiro ; Ohshima, Hiroyuki

A computer code called SERAPHIM calculating compressible multicomponent multiphase flow with sodium-water chemical reaction has been developed to evaluate wastage environment under tube failure accident in a steam generator of sodium-cooled fast reactors. In this study, the numerical model for liquid droplet entrainment and its transport was developed. The applicability of the model was investigated through the analysis of the basic experiment. It was demonstrated that our numerical model could reproduce the time to end of entrainment and the pressure variation during the occurrence of entrainment.