On the relevance of turbulent structures resolution for cross-flow in a helical-coil tube bundle
Abstract
In this report we discuss how Helical-coil steam generators are being adopted in a number of advanced nuclear reactor designs because of their increased heat transfer efficiency and compactness. Due to the limited operational experience and the expected high cost of dedicated experiments, it is imperative to demonstrate the modeling capability. Computational fluid dynamics is ideally suited for this problem, due to its high resolution and accuracy. However, traditional low-cost URANS turbulence models have shown limited applicability for cross-flow in helical tube bundles. On the other hand, LES methods provide high-accuracy and high-fidelity data with prohibitively high computational cost for design use. In this work, the recently proposed hybrid second-generation model STRUCT is compared to classic URANS turbulence formulations against high-fidelity LES simulations. The STRUCT model produces accurate predictions for all relevant quantities, demonstrating high potential for reproducing helical-coil tube bundle flow phenomena accurately, at an affordable computational cost.
- Authors:
-
[1];
[1];
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1762264
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Annals of Nuclear Energy (Oxford)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Annals of Nuclear Energy (Oxford); Journal Volume: 140; Journal ID: ISSN 0306-4549
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; Helical tube; LES; STRUCT; Steam generator; URANS; Wall function
Citation Formats
Feng, Jinyong, Acton, Michael, Baglietto, Emilio, Kraus, Adam R., and Merzari, Elia. On the relevance of turbulent structures resolution for cross-flow in a helical-coil tube bundle. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2019.107298.
Feng, Jinyong, Acton, Michael, Baglietto, Emilio, Kraus, Adam R., & Merzari, Elia. On the relevance of turbulent structures resolution for cross-flow in a helical-coil tube bundle. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2019.107298
Feng, Jinyong, Acton, Michael, Baglietto, Emilio, Kraus, Adam R., and Merzari, Elia. Thu .
"On the relevance of turbulent structures resolution for cross-flow in a helical-coil tube bundle". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2019.107298. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1762264.
@article{osti_1762264,
title = {On the relevance of turbulent structures resolution for cross-flow in a helical-coil tube bundle},
author = {Feng, Jinyong and Acton, Michael and Baglietto, Emilio and Kraus, Adam R. and Merzari, Elia},
abstractNote = {In this report we discuss how Helical-coil steam generators are being adopted in a number of advanced nuclear reactor designs because of their increased heat transfer efficiency and compactness. Due to the limited operational experience and the expected high cost of dedicated experiments, it is imperative to demonstrate the modeling capability. Computational fluid dynamics is ideally suited for this problem, due to its high resolution and accuracy. However, traditional low-cost URANS turbulence models have shown limited applicability for cross-flow in helical tube bundles. On the other hand, LES methods provide high-accuracy and high-fidelity data with prohibitively high computational cost for design use. In this work, the recently proposed hybrid second-generation model STRUCT is compared to classic URANS turbulence formulations against high-fidelity LES simulations. The STRUCT model produces accurate predictions for all relevant quantities, demonstrating high potential for reproducing helical-coil tube bundle flow phenomena accurately, at an affordable computational cost.},
doi = {10.1016/j.anucene.2019.107298},
journal = {Annals of Nuclear Energy (Oxford)},
number = ,
volume = 140,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Thu Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
Other availability
Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.
Works referenced in this record:
A stress–strain lag Eddy viscosity model for unsteady mean flow
journal, October 2006
- Revell, A. J.; Benhamadouche, S.; Craft, T.
- International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 27, Issue 5
Large-scale large eddy simulation of nuclear reactor flows: Issues and perspectives
journal, February 2017
- Merzari, Elia; Obabko, Aleks; Fischer, Paul
- Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 312
A new k-ϵ eddy viscosity model for high reynolds number turbulent flows
journal, March 1995
- Shih, Tsan-Hsing; Liou, William W.; Shabbir, Aamir
- Computers & Fluids, Vol. 24, Issue 3
A Reynolds stress model for near-wall turbulence
journal, April 1993
- Durbin, P. A.
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 249, Issue -1
STRUCTure-based URANS simulations of thermal mixing in T-junctions
journal, December 2018
- Feng, Jinyong; Frahi, Tarek; Baglietto, Emilio
- Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 340
A new Reynolds stress algebraic equation model
journal, September 1995
- Shih, Tsan-Hsing; Zhu, Jiang; Lumley, John L.
- Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 125, Issue 1-4
A turbulence model study for simulating flow inside tight lattice rod bundles
journal, March 2005
- Baglietto, E.; Ninokata, H.
- Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 235, Issue 7
Two-equation eddy-viscosity turbulence models for engineering applications
journal, August 1994
- Menter, F. R.
- AIAA Journal, Vol. 32, Issue 8
A more general effective-viscosity hypothesis
journal, November 1975
- Pope, S. B.
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 72, Issue 02
The prediction of laminarization with a two-equation model of turbulence
journal, February 1972
- Jones, W. P.; Launder, B. E.
- International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 15, Issue 2
Comparison of heat transfer rates between a straight tube heat exchanger and a helically coiled heat exchanger
journal, February 2002
- Prabhanjan, D. G.; Raghavan, G. S. V.; Rennie, T. J.
- International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 29, Issue 2
Elliptic blending model: A new near-wall Reynolds-stress turbulence closure
journal, February 2002
- Manceau, Rémi; Hanjalić, Kemal
- Physics of Fluids, Vol. 14, Issue 2
Flow-induced vibration analysis of a helical coil steam generator experiment using large eddy simulation
journal, October 2017
- Yuan, Haomin; Solberg, Jerome; Merzari, Elia
- Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 322
The design and safety features of the IRIS reactor
journal, May 2004
- Carelli, Mario D.; Conway, L. E.; Oriani, L.
- Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 230, Issue 1-3
Application of the energy-dissipation model of turbulence to the calculation of flow near a spinning disc
journal, November 1974
- Launder, B. E.; Sharma, B. I.
- Letters in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 1, Issue 2
Tube vibration in a half-scale sector model of a helical tube steam generator
journal, December 1983
- Chen, S. S.; Jendrzejczyk, J. A.; Wambsganss, M. W.
- Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 91, Issue 4
CFD and DNS methodologies development for fuel bundle simulations
journal, August 2006
- Baglietto, E.; Ninokata, H.; Misawa, Takeharu
- Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 236, Issue 14-16