Near-wall modeling of bubbly flows

Multiphase computational fluid dynamics (M-CFD) codes are gaining acceptance in the nuclear industry for the prediction of thermal-hydraulic behavior, offering the potential to improve the operation, economics, and safety of current systems, and enhance the design of next generation reactors. The common approach when applying M-CFD methods to the bubbly flow regime is to use an Eulerian-Eulerian two-fluid model, which solves for averaged mass and momentum equations for liquid and gas phases, as well as the k-epsilon turbulence model with modifications to account for the presence of bubbles. The resulting partial differential equations require well-posed boundary conditions, with special treatment at the walls, where there exist strong gradients of all variables. The present work systematically addresses the boundary conditions at solid walls for turbulent bubbly flows.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Lubchenko, Nazar.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Emilio Baglietto.

• Nuclear Science and Engineering.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121709

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/121709