快堆全堆芯热工流体子通道并行模拟技术研究

采用简化堆芯模型的传统子通道模拟计算结果难以精确反映堆芯的真实运行状况,利用高性能计算技术进行全堆芯精确到每个真实流道的子通道模拟计算成为研究热点。本文抽象描述了快堆堆芯的基础几何结构,在此基础上提出了一种全堆芯子通道建模方法和一种自适应的并行任务划分方法。设计了广度优先划分算法和层次划分算法,实现了全堆芯子通道任意个数求解域的划分,自适应地映射到不同个数的计算核上,从而可利用PC、集群、超算等不同规模的计算资源开展全堆并行模拟。使用针对快堆模拟修改后的子通道模拟软件CTF进行验证,证明了建模方法对于快堆子通道模拟是有效的。基于本文方法在曙光先进计算服务平台上使用两种不同网格规模的算例进行了测试,两组测试最低并行效率在33.02%以上,证明了本文方法的有效性和可用性。

低噪声密封式铁道车辆用电机的开发

东芝公司面对“人和环境优良的交通系统”，开发了低噪声和维修性优良的密封式铁道车辆用电机。具体是通过改进内部密封冷却结构．提高冷却效率实现的。 首先．着眼于和转子直接连接的外扇式全封闭电机的风扇降噪，利用不等距配置叶片和对叶片形状进行改良，实现降低噪声级10dB（A）的效果。 另外，还埘全密封式电机利用热一流体解析模拟，改进行驶风冷却器和内部结构，既降低了电机温升，也提高了密封隔声性能．达到降噪21dB（A）的效果。

Numerical Study on Heat Transfer Enhancement for Use of Corrugated, Nodal and Horizontal Grain Tubes

With isopentane as working fluid, the heat transfer performances for corrugated, nodal and horizontal grain tubes are simulated. The structural parameters of the three kinds of tubes are compared with those of the plain tube. The numerical results using computational fluid dynamics are validated with theoretical values. For the corrugated, nodal and horizontal grain tubes, the heat transfer enhancements(HTEs) are 2.31—2.53, 1.18—1.86 and 1.02—1.31 times of those of the plain tube, respectively. However, the improved HTEs are at the expense of pressure losses. The drag coefficients are 6.10—7.09, 2.06—11.03 and 0.53—1.83 higher, respectively. From the viewpoint of comprehensive heat transfer factor, the corrugated tube is recommended for engineering applications, followed by the horizontal grain tube.

Molecular Thermodynamics of Charged Hard-Dumbbell Fluids

Chemical potentials of charged hard-dumbbell fluids are obtained by Monte Carlo simulations using Widom's test-particle method, corresponding compressibility factors are achieved by integration of chemical potentials at different densities. A molecular thermodynamic model is also developed for these charged hard-dumbbell fluids where the residual Helmholtz function is composed of two terms: a reference term responsible for the charged hard spheres and a bonding contribution measuring the sticky interactions between positive and negative hard ions.Model predictions are in good agreement with simulation results.

Analysis of fouling characteristic in enhanced tubes using multiple heat and mass transfer analogies

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis on cooling tower fouling data taken from seven 15.54 mm I.D. helically ribbed, copper tubes and a plain tube at Re = 16000. There are two key processes during fouling formation： fouling deposition and fouling removal, which can be determined by mass transfer and fluid friction respectively. The mass transfer coefficient can be calculated through three analogies： Prandtl analogy, VonKarman analogy, and Chilton-Colburn analogy. Based on our analyses, Von-Karman analogy is the optimized analogy, which can well predict the formation of cooling tower fouling. Series of semi-theoretical fouling correlations as a function of the product of area indexes and efficiency indexes were developed, which can be applicable to different internally ribbed geometries. The correlations can be directly used to assess the fouling ootential of enhanced tubes in actual coolinu tower water situations.

Simulation of Thermocapillary Convection in a TwoLayer Immiscible Fluid System Using a Boundary Element Method

A boundary element method for simulating thermocapillary convection in a two-layer immiscible fluid system with flat and free interface has been developed.The divergence theorem is applied to the non-linear convective volume integral of the boundary element formulation with the pressure penalty function.Consequently,velocity gradients are eliminated and the complete formulation is written in terms of velocity.This avoids the difficulty of convective discretizations and provides considerable reductions in storage and computational requirements while improving accuracy.In this paper,we give the influence of different parameters(Marangoni number, Reynolds number)on thermocapillary convection in cavity with two-layer immiscible fluids.As shown by the numerical results,when the physical parameters between liquid encapsulant and melt are chosen appropriately, the detrimental flow in the bottom melt layer can be greatly suppressed.The influence of the free interface on thermocapillary convection is also shown.

Heat Transfer and Hydrodynamics in Annular Chromatography: CFD-Simulation and Experiments

Continuous annular chromatography(CAC) is a separation process for multicomponent liquid mixtures. The performance of the apparatus can be seriously decreased by temperature gradients inside the adsorbent bed. It is shown, that the temperature gradients can be significantly reduced by a pre-heating of the entering liquid in the apparatus itself. Heat transfer and hydrodynamics in the porous media are described by two different modelling approaches. Both are based on a pseudo-homogeneous model for heat transfer with temperature dependent fluid viscosities. The first model considers one-dimensional fluid now and two-dimensional heat transfer. The second, more rigorous one is a three-dimensional model for heat transfer and hydrodynamics. The simulation results obtained with both models are in good agreement with experimental results. The experiments have been performed with glass beads as the stationary phase and water as the liquid phase under different boundary conditions. The temparature profiles inside the packed bed have been measured with thermocouples.

Material transportation and fluid-melt activity in the subduction channel: Numerical modeling

The subduction channel is defined as a planar to wedge-like area of variable size,internal structure and composition,which forms between the upper and lower plates during slab subduction into the mantle.The materials in the channel may experience complex pressure,temperature,stress and strain evolution,as well as strong fluid and melt activity.A certain amount of these materials may subduct to and later exhume from>100 km depth,forming high to ultra-high pressure rocks on the surface as widely discovered in nature.Rock deformation in the channel is strongly assisted by metamorphic fluids activities,which change composition and mechanical properties of rocks and thus affect their subduction and exhumation histories.In this study,we investigate the detailed structure and dynamics of both oceanic and continental subduction channels,by conducting highresolution petrological-thermomechanical numerical simulations taking into account fluid and melt activities.The numerical results demonstrate that subduction channels are composed of a tectonic rock melange formed by crustal rocks detached from the subducting slab and the hydrated mantle rocks scratched from the overriding plate.These rocks may either extrude sub-vertically upward through the mantle wedge to the crust of the upper plate,or exhume along the subduction channel to the surface near the suture zone.Based on our numerical results,we first analyze similarities and differences between oceanic and continental subduction channels.We further compare numerical models with and without fluid and melt activity and demonstrate that this activity results in strong weakening and deformation of overriding lithosphere.Finally,we show that fast convergence of orogens subjected to fluid and melt activity leads to strong deformation of the overriding lithosphere and the topography builds up mainly on the overriding plate.In contrast,slow convergence of such orogens leads to very limited deformation of the overriding lithosphere and the mountain building mainly occurs on the subducting plate.

Viscous Heating for Laminar Liquid Flow in Microtubes

Using de-ionized ultra-filtered water (DIUFW) as the working fluid, the effects of viscous dissipation in micro-tubes with inner diameters of 19.9μm and 44.2μm, respectively, have been studied by experiments, the theoretical analysis and the numerical simulation at laminar state. Based on thermal imaging technology of micro-area, the temperature rise resulted from the viscous dissipation in microtube is measured by employing IR camera with a specially magnifying lens at different Reynolds numbers. A 2-D model adapted to microtube is presented to simulate the viscous dissipation characteristic considering electric double layer effect (EDL). The investigation shows the calculating results are in rough agreement with the experimental data if removing the experimental uncertainties. Based on the experimental and the numerical simulation results, a viscous dissipation number which can describe the law of the viscous heating in microtube is summed up and it explains the abnormity of the flow resistance in microtubes.