Abstract
This study presents the two-phase CFD simulation of experiments carried out on COSI facility in the frame of Pressurized Thermal Shock (PTS). PTS may occur during a cold-water injection, by the Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) during a Loss-Of-Coolant Accident (LOCA). The simulations were carried out using the Neptune_CFD code. A sensitivity study on Direct Contact Condensation (DCC) models was performed with a comparison with experimental data. At the end of this study, it appears that the turbulence of the free surface is rather low. Consequently, a low-turbulence heat transfer model is more appropriate. Then, two sensitivity studies on global and local mesh refinement are carried out, with the creation of an optimized mesh. This optimized mesh is used with the low-turbulence model to simulate the 40 test cases with no water level and co-current steam flow. Deviations in temperature and total condensation rate are less than 5% and 25% respectively. Finally, the condensation rate between stratified and non-stratified regions is evaluated. Condensation tends to occur in non-stratified zones, with imbalance that can be very high, reaching almost 80% of total condensation.
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