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.
Authors
- Anyu Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3582-6323)
- Tong Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3645-7483)
- Zengsheng Mei
- Bingfeng Ju
- Mengchen Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6860-2583)
- Cai Deng
- Qiang Ru
Institutions
- China National Nuclear Corporation (CN)
- China General Nuclear Power Corporation (China) (CN)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part E Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
- Published
- 2026-09-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/09544089261485391
- Primary Topic
- Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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