著者

新井 崇洋 阿部 豊 佐藤 健一郎 中川 裕二

出版者

一般社団法人日本機械学会

雑誌

年次大会講演論文集 : JSME annual meeting

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2004, no.3, pp.221-222, 2004-09-04

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Spontaneous vapor explosion can occur when a layer of the high temperature molten material lies on the water pool or on the moisture floor. This is so-called base-triggered vapor explosion. The base-triggered vapor explosion is supposed to occur in the case of a severe accident in a nuclear reactor and in other industrial facilities. It is very important to clarify the base-triggered vapor explosion from the viewpoints of the prediction and the prevention of the vapor explosion. In order to evaluate the heat transfer and fluid dynamic behavior of the base-triggered vapor explosion, the experimental apparatus is designed and constructed. The experiments using U-Alloy95 as a stimulant material are conducted. Consequently, the behavior of the molten material can be observed in detail with this experimental apparatus. The digital auto-correlation method and PIV are also applied to the visual observation data obtained on the experiments in order to evaluate the velocity distribution of the molten material. Based on the velocity, the conversion ratio of kinetic energy in initial thermal energy at the vapor explosion is also evaluated. In addition, the experimental results are compared with the thermal interaction zone (TIZ) theory in order to evaluate the occurrence condition of base-triggered vapor explosion.