Abstract:
The coolant blowdown process is one of the important processes of the loss of coolant accident (LOCA). It is of great significance to study the thermal hydraulic characteristics of coolant blowdown process for understanding LOCA and predicting the migration process of radioactive source term after accident. The numerical simulation model of coolant blowdown was established by FLUENT software and verified. The model was used to study the effects of blowdown parameters such as diameter of nozzle, blowdown distance and blowdown pressure on flow field temperature, droplet velocity and vapor velocity. The results show that the increase of diameter of nozzle increases the blowdown parameters. As the blowdown distance increases, the flow field temperature and the droplet velocity increase first and then decrease, while the vapor velocity first rises and then stabilizes. The greater the blowdown pressure is, the farther the blowdown parameter is from the blowdown outlet. The maximum values of droplet velocity and vapor velocity increase gradually with the blowdown pressure, while the maximum value of the flow field temperature does not change.