CFD Applications to Pressurized Thermal Shock-Related Phenomena

Table 4

CFD simulations of a single-phase flow on the UPTF experiments.

CFD simulation	Test	Code	Mesh resolution	Two-phase	Standard	RNG	Standard	SST	Fluid properties	Simulation
Martin et al. [57]	Transient and water of different temperature case	STAR-CD, Code_Saturne, and NEPTUNE_CFD	Code_Saturne and NEPTUNE_CFD: 0.25 M cells (fluid domain) and 0.66 M cells (solid domain) and STAR-CD: 0.51 M cells (fluid domain) and 0.27 M cells (solid domain)	NEPTUNE_CFD: two-fluid model	●				STAR-CD and Code_Saturne: polynomial functions and NEPTUNE_CFD: water table	Transient
Beukelmann et al. [58]	TRAM C1 Run2a1	ANSYS CFX	0.35 M (main coolant pipes and DC) and 0.22 M (lower plenum) nodes	N/A				●	N/A	Transient
Höhne and Deendarlianto [59]	Test I	ANSYS CFX	4.3 M elements and 0.8 M nodes	N/A			●		N/A	Transient
Li et al. [4]	Test 11	ANSYS Fluent 19.2	3.91 M, 6.72 M, 12.7 M, 24 M, 30 M cells	N/A	●	●	●	●	N/A	Transient

Data in italics under mesh resolution: conditions used for validation among multiple conditions or conditions that were indicated to be suitable. Black circles mean applicable.