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Studying the vibration and random hydrodynamic loads on the fuel rods bundles in the fuel assemblies of the reactor installations used at nuclear power stations equipped with VVER reactors

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Random hydrodynamic loads causing vibration of fuel rod bundles in a turbulent flow of coolant are obtained from the results of pressure pulsation measurements carried out over the perimeter of the external row of fuel rods in the bundle of a full-scale mockup of a fuel assembly used in a second-generation VVER-440 reactor. It is shown that the turbulent flow structure is a factor determining the parameters of random hydrodynamic loads and the vibration of fuel rod bundles excited by these loads. The results from a calculation of random hydrodynamic loads are used for estimating the vibration levels of fuel rod bundles used in prospective designs of fuel assemblies for VVER reactors.

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  1. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Vtoraya Baumanskaya ul. 5, Moscow, 105005, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.I. Solonin, V.V. Perevezentsev, 2012, published in Teploenergetika.

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Solonin, V.I., Perevezentsev, V.V. Studying the vibration and random hydrodynamic loads on the fuel rods bundles in the fuel assemblies of the reactor installations used at nuclear power stations equipped with VVER reactors. Therm. Eng. 59, 384–389 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601512050114

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