Predicting and Preventing Flow Accelerated Corrosion in Nuclear Power Plant

Table 2

Examples of the use of CFD in FAC.

Authors	Purpose	Comments	References
Uchida et al.	Prediction of FAC with Mihama as test case	No comparison with existing data and its extrapolation to high Re’s or effects of roughness	[42]
Hoashi et al.	Prediction of FAC with Mihama as test case	No comparison with existing data and its extrapolation to high Re’s or effects of roughness.	[43]
Pietralik and Smith, Pietralik and Schefski	Prediction/explaining; CANDU feeder FAC	Compares with some but not all bend data. Attempts to deal with roughness development and component interactions	[44, 45]
Nesic and Postlethwaite	Predict e-c following sudden expansion	Makes key point that profiles of and shear stress do not correlate	[29]
Zinemams and Herszaz	Predict FAC in bifurcation and nozzle	Limited detail to check results but claims there is agreement, effects of roughness not considered.	[46]
Yoneda	Predict FAC in PWR and BWR, of 45° elbow	Interesting but again no comparison with others or the effects of roughness	[47]