In this article, numerical results from a highly resolved large eddy simulations (LES) of an airhelium buoyant jet developing in a two vented cavity are presented. The simulated configuration mimics the helium-release experiment carried out at CEA Saclay in the framework of security assessment of indoor used hydrogen-based systems. The height of the enclosure was chosen so that a laminar-turbulent transition occurs approximately at the middle of the upstream direction. An exterior region, of different spatial dimensions, has been modelled in the computational domain in order to move the boundary conditions away from the vent surface and to approach the natural inlet/outlet conditions. A sensitivity analysis regarding the size of the exterior region is presented to define the minimum horizontal extension so that the flow inside the cavity is not furthermore influenced by bigger computational domains. We observe mainly that applying an ambient equilibrium-hydrostatic pressure outlet condition directly on the surface of the vent reduces the volume of the air inflow, and thus predicts larger helium mass inside the cavity, in contrary with the cases where an exterior region is considered. A qualification analysis shows that the sub-grid scale model plays a small role in the calculations and thus implies that the LES predictions approach the direct numerical simulation (DNS) solution. Analysis carried out on the time-averaged helium field depict a stratified regime not situated in the framework of the theoretical model used in safety pre-calculations.
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