Abstract
This paper describes the current status of flow-induced vibration evaluation for the primary cooling piping in Japan sodium-cooled fast reactor (JSFR), with particular emphasis on research and development activities for the hot-leg piping characterized by a short-elbow piping. Important factors were discussed in evaluating the flow-induced vibration for the hot-leg piping, to which the coolant flows from the reactor upper sodium plenum. To investigate a complex flow near the inlet of the hot-leg piping, a reactor scale numerical analysis was carried out for the reactor upper plenum flow, which was simulated in a 1/10-scale reactor upper plenum experiment. Based on this analysis, experimental conditions on swirl inflow and deflected inflow that were identified as important factors were determined for flow-induced vibration experiments simulating only the hot-leg piping. In this study, the effect of the swirl inflow on flow pattern and pressure fluctuation onto the pipe wall was investigated in a 1/3-scale hot-leg pipe experiment.
