Numerical Modelling of Water Flashing at Sub-Atmopsheric Pressure

19 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2023

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Clément Loiseau

Electricité De France (EDF R&D)

Stéphane Mimouni

Electricite de France

Didier Colmont

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Stéphane Vincent

Gustave Eiffel University

Abstract

A CFD numerical study of the flash boiling phenomenon of a water film was conducted using an Euler-Euler method, and compared to the experiments of Saury (2003) on the flashing of a water film. The water film is initially heated at temperatures ranging from 34 to 74°C (1 to 41°C superheat), and the pressure is decreased from 1 bar to 50 mbar during the experiments. We showed that the experiments could not be correctly modeled by a simple liquid/bubble model because of the overestimation of the drag force above the water film (in the gas/droplet region).The GLIM (Generalised Large Interface Model) however, implemented in the neptune_cfd software, is able to differentiate the water film, where liquid/bubble interactions are predominant, with the gas region where the gas/droplet interactions are predominant, and gives nice qualitative results. Finally, we showed that the flashing model for overheated liquid used in neptune_cfd, while developed and validated for high pressure flows, predicted the evolution of the water temperature over time reasonably.

Keywords: Flashing, Computational fluid dynamics, Superheat, Water film

Suggested Citation

Loiseau, Clément and Mimouni, Stéphane and Colmont, Didier and Vincent, Stéphane, Numerical Modelling of Water Flashing at Sub-Atmopsheric Pressure. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4341084 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4341084

Clément Loiseau (Contact Author)

Electricité De France (EDF R&D) ( email )

Stéphane Mimouni

Electricite de France ( email )

Didier Colmont

affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )

Stéphane Vincent

Gustave Eiffel University ( email )

France

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