Experimental and numerical investigations of wall temperature fluctuations due to thermal mixing in an annulus

• Wall temperature fluctuations during thermal mixing of water in an annular test section have been measured and numerically predicted. The characteristics of the temperature fluctuations, such as their amplitudes and frequencies, are closely related to a premature structural failure due to the thermal fatigue. The goal of the present work has been to obtain experimental data on the convective heat transfer in presence of thermal mixing and use the data for validation of computational codes. During the experiments, two water streams at significantly different temperatures and at pressure 7.2 MPa are mixing in an annular test section, causing significant fluctuations of temperatures in walls surrounding the mixing zone. In parallel to experiments, the analyses of water mixing and of the resulting wall temperature fluctuations have been carried out using the Large Eddy Simulations (LES) with conjugate heat transfer approach. A similar behavior of temperature fluctuations has been observed in experiments and calculations. In particular, it has been both calculated and measured that the wall temperature spectrum varies at different locations in the test section and the dominant frequencies of fluctuations for the case presented in the paper are in the range of 0.1 to 0.2 Hz.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Energiteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Energy Engineering (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Thermal mixing

Conjugate Heat Transfer

Wall temperature measurement

Large Eddy Simulations

Thermal fatigue

Energy Technology

Energiteknik

Fysik

Physics

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