Penetration Behavior of Liquid Jet Falling Into a Shallow Pool

Abstract

Mitigation measures against severe accidents (SAs) are important from the viewpoint of safety of nuclear reactors. In some scenarios of the SAs, the core materials melt and fall into a water pool in the lower plenum as a jet. The molten material jet is broken up, and heat transfer between molten material and coolant is occurred. This process is called a fuel-coolant interaction (FCI). The aim of the present study is to clarify the liquid jet behavior falling into a shallow pool. Our focus is on the atomization conditions of a liquid jet injected into the pool with insufficient depth. In order to understand the jet behavior in a shallow pool, we performed observation of visualization with several methods and mapped observed flow regimes of jet against dimensionless numbers. As a results of observation, we succeeded visualization of internal flow.