LDV Flow Measurement of a Deflected Inflow Using a 1/10-Scale Hot-Log Piping Test Facility of a Primary Circuit Hot-Leg Piping in a Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor

Abstract

LDV measurements in a 90 degree elbow, of which curvature radius coincides with the diameter have been conducted for cases of developed inflow, undeveloped inflow, swirling inflow, and deflected inflow that became faster at the inside. This paper especially focuses on a result of the deflected inflow, comparing with a result of the undeveloped inflow. The result shows that the deflected inflow reinforces a convex velocity distribution occurring near the curvature inside in the downstream region, concluding that the deflected inflow promotes the secondary flow of Prandtl's first kind in the elbow. Frequency analyses of axial flow fluctuations show that the dominant frequency can be seen in the downstream of the elbow even in the deflected inflow case. However its Strouhal number increases to 0.6 from 0.5, that is for the short pipe case. Results of frequency analyses are also shown for other cases that we have been examined. Dominant Strouhal numbers in most of the cases become 0.5, except for 0.6 in cases of the developed and deflected inflow. This frequency shift might be related with the boundary layer size and the local flow velocity, since the corresponding fluctuation is caused by vortex shedding from the boundary layer at the elbow inside.