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ABSTRACT
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Jong Chull Jo, Mem. ASME; Dong Gu Kang, and Kyung Wan Roh
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Two-phase flow fields inside feeder pipes of a CANada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactor
have been simulated numerically using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code to calculate
the shear stress distribution, which is the most important factor to be considered in predicting the
local areas of feeder pipes highly susceptible to flow-accelerated corrosion (FAC)-induced wall
thinning. The CFD approach with schemes used in this study to simulate the turbulent flow
situations inside the CANDU feeder pipes has been verified by showing a good agreement
between the investigation results for the failed feedwater pipe at Surry Unit 2 plant in the U.S.
and the CFD calculation. Sensitivity studies of the three geometrical parameters such as angle of
the first and second bends, length of the first span between the grayloc hub and the first bend, and
length of the second span between the first and second bends had already been performed. In this
study, the effects of void fraction of the primary coolant coming out from the exit of pressure
tubes containing nuclear fuel on the fluid shear stress distribution at the inner surface of the
feeder pipe wall have been investigated to find out the local areas of feeder pipes conveying a
two-phase coolant, which are highly susceptible to FAC-induced wall thinning. From the results
of the CFD analysis, it is seen that the local regions of feeder pipes of the operating CANDU
reactors in Korea, on which the wall thickness measurements have been performed so far, do not
coincide with the worst regions predicted by the present CFD analysis, which is the connection
region of straight and bend pipes near the inlet part of the bend intrados. Finally, based on the
results of the present CFD analysis, a guide to the selection of the weakest local positions where
the measurement of wall thickness should be performed with higher priority has been provided.
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    Received 14 August 2007; revised 7 May 2008; published
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- 10 December 2008
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3008038
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