Validation of Liquid Droplet Entrainment and Transport Model in Sodium-water Reaction Analysis Code, SERAPHIM

Abstract

In order to establish a safety evaluation method of a steam generator of sodium-cooled fast reactors, a computer program called SERAPHIM has been developed to calculate compressible multicomponent multiphase flow with sodium-water chemical reaction under tube failure accident. In this study, a numerical model for liquid droplet entrainment from an interface of the gaseous jet and its transport was validated through the analysis of experiment on vertical discharging of high-pressure air in a water pool. This model considers the mass, momentum, and energy conservation equations including the correlation of liquid droplet entrainment velocity. The numerical result showed the entrained liquid droplet phase was accelerated by the air jet. The calculated velocity of the liquid droplet falls within the dispersion of the measured data.