The Impact of Mixing Vane Arrangement on Mixing Coefficient β for Subchannel Analysis
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DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2018.1510266
Abstract: Abstract Mixing vanes attached to a space grid play an important role in heat transfer enhancement, thus increasing critical heat flux. Subchannel analysis and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are usually applied to simulate the coolant… read more here.
Keywords: vane arrangement; mixing vane; vane; subchannel analysis ... See more keywords
Large eddy simulation of a turbulent flow in a 5 x 5 rod bundle with a mixing vane spacer grid
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DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1334200
Abstract: In fuel assemblies of pressurized water reactors (PWRs), mixing-vane spacer grids are extensively employed to array fuel rods and enhance inter- and intra-subchannel mixing. The turbulent flow downstream of spacer grids is essential knowledge to… read more here.
Keywords: mixing vane; spacer grid; simulation; spacer ... See more keywords