The invention discloses a rapid numerical prediction method for flow resistance of a
shellfish trap, and relates to the field of flow resistance analysis of a
nuclear power seawater cooling
system. A filter screen explicit modeling or
experimental testing mode is mostly adopted for flow resistance analysis of an existing
shellfish catcher, and the problems that the calculation scale is large, the
simulation period is long, the cost is high, or parameters depend on experience, and the
engineering applicability is insufficient exist. On the basis of a
porous medium equivalent modeling thought, on the premise that the
porosity of the filter screen is kept consistent, a filter screen area is replaced with a
porous medium area, only the
viscous resistance effect in direct proportion to the flow velocity is introduced, and through pressure drop comparison of an explicit filter screen model and a
porous medium model, iterative fitting is conducted on
viscous resistance parameters, so that the filter screen
porosity is calculated. And fitting parameters are applied to the
integral model of the
shellfish trap, so that rapid numerical calculation of the flow resistance characteristic is realized. The method is suitable for
engineering design, operation analysis and flow resistance rapid evaluation of shellfish traps and similar high-
porosity filtering structures in a
seawater cooling
system of a
nuclear power station.