Review Article

CFD Applications to Pressurized Thermal Shock-Related Phenomena

Table 7

CFD simulations of a two-phase (air–water) flow on the TOPFLOW-PTS experiments.

CFD simulationTestCodeMesh resolutionTwo-phaseStandard SST LESInterfacial momentum transferFluid propertiesSimulation

Apanasevich et al. [91]NURISP project, steady-state air–water case (pretest)ANSYS CFX 12.00.85 M elementsHomogeneous (one-fluid)N/AConstantTransient
Martin et al. [93]NURISP project, steady-state air–water case (pretest)NEPTUNE_CFD0.43 M cells (fluid domain) and 0.06 M cells (solid domain)Two-fluid modelLIMConstantTransient
Deendarlianto et al. [94]NURISP project, steady-state air–water case (posttest)ANSYS CFX1.5 M elementsTwo-fluid modelAIAD and no modeling (standard two-fluid model)IAPWSTransient
Ničeno et al. [119]NURISP project, steady-state air–water case (posttest)ANSYS FLUENT 12.00.85 M cellsVOF method
Smagorinsky and dynamic SGS models
N/AN/ATransient
Deshpande et al. [95]NURISP project, steady-state air–water case (posttest)ANSYS Fluent 14.50.85 M cellsVOF and LS methodsN/AN/ASteady-state
Apanasevich et al. [15]NURISP project, steady-state air–water case (posttest)ANSYS CFX 12.0, ANSYS FLUENT 12.0 and NEPTUNE_CFD 1.0.8CFX: 0.87 M and 1.5 M element, FLUENT: 0.87 M elements, and NEPTUNE_CFD: 0.53 M cellsCFX and NEPTUNE_CFD: Two-fluid model and FLUENT: VOF method
NEPTUNE_CFD

CFX

Smagorinsky SGS model (FLUENT)
CFX: AIAD and constant drag coefficient of 0.44, FLUENT: N/A, and NEPTUNE_CFD: LIMCFX: constant (air) and IAPWS (water), FLUENT: constant, and NEPTUNE_CFD: constant (air) and CATHARE (water)FLUENT: transient and CFX and NEPTUNE_CFD: N/A
Kim et al. [96]NURISP project, steady-state air–water case (posttest)ANSYS Fluent 14.50.87 M, 4.4 M, and 5.7 M cellsVOF methodN/AN/ASteady-state

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.