The Effect Of Turbulence Models On Coolant Temperature And Velocity For The Pebble-Bed Typed High Temperature Reactor
Abstract
The 3D thermal-hydraulics analysis based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has a role to analysis more detail the reactor safety, especially for pebble-bed typed High Temperature Reactor (HTR). A realistic pebble arrangement becomes a challenge to be modeled based on the Simple Cubic (SC), Body-Centered Cubic (BCC) and Face-Centered Cubic (FCC). Furthermore, CFD calculation could utilizes laminar model as well as turbulence model such as , and Reynold stress model (RSM). Therefore, the objective of this reseach is to analyze the effect of turbulence model on temperature and coolant velocity distribution using FCC on pebble-bed typed HTR as well as investigation of the turbulence models. The comparison shows that all models are acceptable for HTR-10 case with the difference by the range of 0.03-0.33% for the temperature parameters, in which the minimum different is obtained by model.
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