Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. Development of a drift-flux model for heavy liquid metal/gas flow
 
research article

Development of a drift-flux model for heavy liquid metal/gas flow

Mikityuk, Konstantin
•
Coddington, Paul
•
Chawla, Rakesh  
2005
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

The gas lift pump concept based on the bubbling of an inert gas into the primary reactor coolant to enhance natural circulation is currently considered in a number of PbBi-cooled reactor concepts. Thus, the analysis of available void fraction data and the development of two-phase heavy liquid metal/gas flow calculational models have become an important issue in the study of advanced nuclear reactor systems. In the absence of the detailed two-phase flow information needed to develop a flow regime map and the associated interfacial relations, drift-flux models have often been used in the thermal-hydraulic analysis of nuclear and other systems. Accordingly, we consider, in the current paper, the analysis of five sets of experimental data with different geometries, working fluids, flow rates and void fraction ranges, with a view to obtaining a best fit to the data in the form of a drift-flux model. The results of the analysis show that, for systems with flowing fluid, it is possible to represent the heavy liquid metal void fraction data in the form of a drift-flux correlation with a residual error of as low as 0.016, thus offering an improvement over existing void correlations.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.3327/jnst.42.600
Author(s)
Mikityuk, Konstantin
Coddington, Paul
Chawla, Rakesh  
Date Issued

2005

Publisher

Atomic Energy Society of Japan

Published in
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology
Volume

42

Issue

7

Start page

600

End page

607

Subjects

Heavy metals

•

Coolants

•

Hydraulics

•

Lead compounds

•

Mathematical models

•

Nuclear reactors

•

Thermal effects

•

Two phase flow

Note

Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
LRS  
Available on Infoscience
September 17, 2010
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/53866
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés