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This study numerically evaluates thermofluid flow characteristics in porous medium by a newly developed “modified two-phase mixture model” applying Ergun’s law and a two-energy model instead of a one-energy model. In a single-phase flow case, thermal nonequilibrium between a solid phase and a fluid phase is observed in the area where imposed heat conducts from a heating wall and further convective heat transfer is more active. The degree of thermal nonequilibrium has a positive correlation with the increase in flow velocity and heat flux input. In the case of two-phase flow, the thermal nonequilibrium is remarkable in the two-phase region because the solid-phase temperature in this region is far beyond saturation temperature. A difference between these two models is obvious especially in the two-phase flow case, so that the numerical simulation with the modified two-phase mixture model is indispensable under the high heat flux conditions of over 1MW∕m2.

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A multi-elbow piping system is adopted for the Japan sodium-cooled fast reactor (JSFR) cold-legs. Flow-induced vibration (FIV) is considered to appear due to complex turbulent flow with very high Reynolds number in the piping. In this study, pressure measurement for a single elbow flow is conducted to elucidate pressure fluctuation characteristics originated from turbulent motion in the elbow, which lead potentially to the FIV. Two different scale models, 1/7- and 1/14-scale simulating the JSFR cold-leg piping, are tested experimentally to confirm whether a scale effect in pressure fluctuation characteristics exists. A distinguishing peak can be seen in each power spectrum density (PSD) profile of pressure fluctuation obtained in and downstream of the flow separation region for both scaled models. When nondimensionalized, the PSD profiles show good correspondence regardless of scale model and even of Reynolds number simulated in this study.

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