Thermal-fluid-structural response and POD-RBF stress-field reconstruction of a high-temperature high-pressure control valve

High-temperature, high-pressure control valves in steam systems experience coupled flow acceleration, heat transfer, pressure loading, and constrained deformation, making repeated structural assessment expensive. A one-way thermal-fluid-structural procedure is established for a normally open control valve, and a POD-RBF reduced-order model is developed to reconstruct the stress field along a measured heat-up and pressurization path. Wall pressure and temperature from the CFD model are transferred to the solid domain, and stress snapshots from six training conditions are aligned on a common reference mesh before modal reduction and radial-basis interpolation. The representative 17.2 MPa/575 °C condition gives a maximum velocity of 15.926 m/second, maximum equivalent stress of 244.96 MPa, and maximum deformation of 0.61765 mm. For the unseen G7 condition, the maximum-stress error is 0.80%. Extreme-condition stress classification identifies the passage transition as the location with the lowest safety margin, although the calculated stresses remain within the allowable limits.

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Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part E Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
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2026-09-03
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https://doi.org/10.1177/09544089261485391
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Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
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High-temperature, high-pressure control valves in steam systems experience coupled flow acceleration, heat transfer, pressure loading, and constrained deformation, making repeated structural assessment expensive. A one-way thermal-fluid-structural procedure is established for a normally open control valve, and a POD-RBF reduced-order model is developed to reconstruct the stress field along a measured heat-up and pressurization path. Wall pressure and temperature from the CFD model are transferred to the solid domain, and stress snapshots from six training conditions are aligned on a common reference mesh before modal reduction and radial-basis interpolation. The representative 17.2 MPa/575 °C condition gives a maximum velocity of 15.926 m/second, maximum equivalent stress of 244.96 MPa, and maximum deformation of 0.61765 mm. For the unseen G7 condition, the maximum-stress error is 0.80%. Extreme-condition stress classification identifies the passage transition as the location with the lowest safety margin, although the calculated stresses remain within the allowable limits.

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part E Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
China National Nuclear Corporation (CN), China General Nuclear Power Corporation (China) (CN), Zhejiang University (CN)
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