Measurement of Steady and Unsteady Hydrodynamic Loads on a Nuclear Fuel Bundle

Smith, Bruce A.; Derksen, D.D.

doi:10.1006/jfls.1997.0149

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“…Besides power, the effect of other parameters, such as flow velocity and steam quality in two-phase flow, was also studied, but the excitation mechanism was not clearly explained. Smith and Derken (1998) measured the overall unsteady forces acting on a CANDU 6 inlet bundle. The investigation indicated that the bundle vibration mode was a mixture of rolling and bending motion, and the most concerned frequencies were those less than 30 Hz and characterized by almost rigid-body motion, including a low frequency motion as the bundle rocking from side to side in the pressure tube.…”

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Numerical and experimental investigations on vibration of simulated CANDU fuel bundles subjected to turbulent fluid flow

Zhang¹

2021

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Vibration of simulated CANDU fuel bundles induced by coolant flow is investigated in this thesis through experiments and numerical simulations. Two simulated bundles and a hydraulic loop are built to mimic the situation of the fuel bundles located at the inlet of a fuel channel in a CANDU nuclear reactor. Fuel bundle vibration mechanism is investigated through experiments and numerical simulations. The three-dimensional turbulent flow that passes through the simulated bundles is modeled using the large eddy simulation (LES) and solved with parallel processing. The local cross flows induced by the presence of endplates at the inlet location and bundle interface location are investigated. The fluid forces are obtained as excitations for the fuel bundle vibration analysis. A finite element model of the fuel bundles is developed with the endplates modeled using the 3rd order thick plate theory. The response of the inlet fuel bundle to the fluid excitations is solved in the time and the frequency domain. The added mass and the fluid damping are approximated with the theory on the flow-induced vibration of slender bodies in a parallel flow. Measurements are obtained and used to validate the numerical prediction under various operating flow conditions.

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Section: Flow-induced Vibration Of Fuel Bundlesmentioning

confidence: 99%