본 연구에서는 다회로의 단상(single-phase) 자연순환계에 관한 실험 및 수치 해석적 연구로서, RWR에서의 자연순환 현상을 모사할 수 있는 fast-running code를 개 발하고 이를 실험을 통하여 입증하며, 또한 자연순환계에서 일어나는 여러 현상을 정 성적으로 관찰하는 것을 목적으로 삼았다. 이론부분은 저자의 다른 논문에 발표되었 으므로 여기에서는 요약하여 소개하며, 실험은 2-회로 PWR(고리 1호기) 1차계통을 약 1/15로 축소시킨 실험장치에서 행하였다.
A numerical and experimental investigation was carried out on the single-phase natural circulation system. This study is concerned with the multiloop system which is relevant to the primary system of the pressurized water reactor. For numerical analysis, five time-dependent governing equations were derived using the one-dimensional lumped parameter model. These equations were discretized by the space-time integration technique, and a simplified computer program, SIMFARS, was developed to solve those discretized equations. Experiments were performed for two purposes-one is to validate the developed code, and the other is to understand the qualitative behavior of the natural circulation loop. Comparison of the computational results with experiments, and several experimental and numerical results are presented in this article.
