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Steam generators as an interface between first and second loop of light water nuclear power plants is very important in design and safety analysis. Thermo hydraulic analysis can affect the design and operation of a horizontal steam generator using prediction of vapor distribution. In this kind of thermo hydraulic analysis, simulation and study of the tube bundles is crucial in design and safety study of the steam generator two phase flow field. In this research, due to high complexity of the numerical simulation, the tube bundles have been assumed as the porous media. Two phase flow field correlations such as interfacial drag force and tube bundle resistance force have obtained by the equations that have been reported in the similar computational fluid dynamic researches. The heat transfer from primary side fluid to the secondary is calculated three-dimensionally each iteration and is supplied as a heat source on the secondary flow field calculation. Besides porous media flow field validation, decrease of computational domain has been studied using appropriate boundary conditions. It was observed that the computed void fraction compared to the experimental results show better accuracy than similar computational fluid dynamic investigations
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Article Type: Research Article | Subject: Porous Media
Received: 2015/09/12 | Accepted: 2015/11/14 | Published: 2015/12/1

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