The Feasibility of Multidimensional CFD Applied to Calandria System in the Moderator of CANDU-6 PHWR Using Commercial and Open-Source Codes

Table 4

Comparison of pressure drop for the STERN laboratory experiment, 3D.

Case	(Pa)
	Experiment; (STERN)	Equation (7)	COMSOL; (3-D)	ANSYS-; CFX (3-D)	OpenFOAM; (3-D)
#1	28.2	27.0	22.3	23.6	23.6
#2	41.3	40.1	36.3	37.6	38.3
#3	78.2	77.7	76.9	77.5	79.9

The porous model is used with the experimental correlation [15].