Constitutive correlations for wire-wrapped subchannel analysis under forced and mixed convection conditions. Part 1. [LMFBR]

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:5952148

Cheng, S K; Todreas, N E

A simple subchannel analysis method based on the ENERGY series of codes, ENERGY-IV, has been established for predicting the temperature field in a single isolated wire-wrapped Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR) subassembly under steady state forced and mixed convection conditions. The ENERGY-IV is a totally empirical code employed for fast running purposes and requires well calibrated lead length averaged input parameters to achieve satisfactory predictions. These input parameters were identified to be the inlet flow split parameters, the subchannel friction factors, the interchannel mixing parameters, the conduction shape factor, and the transverse velocity at the edge gap. Experiments were performed in a 37-pin wire-wrapped rod bundle with a geometry between that of a typical LMFBR fuel subassembly and blanket subassembly for filling the gap in the available data base for the input parameters. The isokinetic extraction method for measuring subchannel velocity, the pitot-static probe for measuring pressure drop, and the salt tracer injection method for estimating the interchannel mixing, were used in these experiments.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76ET37240
• OSTI ID: 5952148
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/37240-108-TR-Pt.1; ON: DE85005103
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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