TRANSID: A computer program for the analysis of hydraulic transients in condenser cooling circuits
Abstract
A computer program to predict the hazards of a given pump regime to the integrity of a cooling circuit was developed. The computer program is based on models of overpressures resulting from water column separation phenomena induced by strong and swift variations of cooling water flow rate in the circuit. The TRANSID version, termed TR/2, is described. The TRANSID code is written in FORTRAN IV language. It runs on an IBM 4341 as well as on a CDC CYBER 76. The total storage occupation, including the necessary system routines, is equivalent to 360 Kbytes on an IBM 4341 and 35 Kwords on a CYBER 76. The CPU time, for time step and for space mesh, is equivalent to 10 msec and 1 msec. Pump trip-off transients predicted by the TR/2 code are compared with in situ condenser cooling circuit measurements.
- Publication:
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Presented at 5th Intern. Symp. on Water Column Separation
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981wcs..symp...28C
- Keywords:
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- Computerized Simulation;
- Condensers (Liquefiers);
- Cooling Systems;
- Hydraulic Equipment;
- Overpressure;
- Double Precision Arithmetic;
- Fortran;
- Input/Output Routines;
- Mathematical Models;
- Systems Simulation;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer