Numerical study on effect of pressure on behavior of bubble coalescence by using CMFD simulation

数値解析による圧力が気泡接合に与える影響の把握

小野 綾子 ; 鈴木 貴行*; 吉田 啓之  

Ono, Ayako; Suzuki, Takayuki*; Yoshida, Hiroyuki

液膜蒸発モデルに基づいた限界熱流束予測評価手法の開発において必要な伝熱面ごく近傍の気泡の挙動や気泡同士の接合現象について、詳細二相流解析コードTPFITによる発泡,気泡生長および接合をシミュレートすることで知見を得る。本発表では、高圧域での沸騰現象の理解と、気泡形状の影響の理解のために、圧力をパラメタとした解析結果に基づいて、気泡の挙動に圧力が与える影響について報告する。

The mechanism of critical heat flux (CHF) for higher system pressure remains to be clarified, even though it is important to evaluate the CHF for the light water reactor (LWR) which is operated under the high pressure condition. In this study, the process of bubble coalescence was simulated by using a computational multi-fluid dynamics (CMFD) simulation code TPFIT under various system pressure in order to investigate the behavior of bubbles as a basic study. The growth of bubbles was simulated by blowing of vapor from a tiny orifice simulating bubble bottom. One or four orifices were located on the bottom surface in this simulation study. The numerical simulations were conducted by varying the pressure and temperature.