Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for Nuclear Reactor Safety Applications
Workshop Proceedings, CFD4NRS-3, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 14-16 September 2010
Table of Contents
Programme
Proceedings of the CFD for Nuclear Reactor Safety Applications (CFD4NRS-3) Workshop
Keynote Lectures
Poster Papers
Session 2
- P2-1 CFD SIMULATION OF CRITICAL HEAT FLUX IN A ROD BUNDLE
- P2-2 STUDY OF NATURAL CONVECTION AROUND A VERTICAL HEATED ROD USING PIV/LIF TECHNIQUE
- P2-2_72 EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF DROPLET SIZE AND VELOCITY
DISTRIBUTIONS AT THE OUTLET OF A PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR CONTAINMENT SWIRLING SPRAY NOZZLE
- P2-3 3D CFD CONV CODE: VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION
- P2-4 CALCULATION OF PRESSURE DROPS THROUGH ATUCHA-II FUEL ASSEMBLY
SPACER GRIDS
- P2-5 MEASUREMENT OF LAMINAR VELOCITY PROFILES IN A PROTOTYPIC PWR FUEL
ASSEMBLY
- P2-9 CFD RECOMBINER MODELLING AND VALIDATION ON THE H2-PAR AND KALI-H2 EXPERIMENTS
Session 3
- P3-1 MULTISCALE COMPUTER SIMULATION OF FISSION GAS DISCHARGE DURING
LOSS-OF-FLOW ACCIDENT IN SODIUM FAST REACTOR
- P3-2 EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF DROPLET SIZE AND VELOCITY
DISTRIBUTIONS AT THE OUTLET OF A PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR
CONTAINMENT SWIRLING SPRAY NOZZLE
- P3-3 CFD MODELING OF WALL STEAM CONDENSATION: TWO PHASE FLOW APPROACH VERSUS HOMOGENEOUS FLOW APPROACH
- P3-4 ADVANCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF CFD-BWR, A TWO-PHASE
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODEL FOR THE SIMULATION OF FLOW AND
HEAT TRANSFER IN BOILING WATER REACTORS
Session 4
- P4-1 THE ROLE OF DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS
IN VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION
- P4-2 A COUPLED CFD FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY IN A
BIFURCATION PIPE IN A NUCLEAR PLANT HEAT EXCHANGER
- P4-3 INTERPRETING THERMOCOUPLE READING IN FUEL ASSEMBLY HEAD - A CFD
STUDY ON COOLANT MIXING
- P4-4 EFFECTIVE APPROACHES TO SIMULATION OF THERMAL STRATIFICATION AND MIXING IN A PRESSURE SUPPRESSION POOL
- P4-5 A SYNERGISTIC USE OF CFD, EXPERIMENTS AND EFFECTIVE CONVECTIVITY MODEL
TO REDUCE UNCERTAINTY IN BWR SEVERE ACCIDENT ANALYSIS
Session 5
- P5-1 2D SIMULATION OF TWO-PHASE FLOW ACROSS A TUBE BUNDLE WITH NEPTUNE_CFD CODE
- P5-3 CFD MODELING OF THE TEST 25 OF THE PANDA EXPERIMENT
- P5-4 ON THE PREDICTION OF BORON DILUTION USING THE CMFD CODE TRANSAT: THE ROCOM TEST CASE
Technical Papers
Session 1: Advanced Reactors (1)
- 1.1 CFD ANALYSIS OF DECAY HEAT REMOVAL SCENARIOS OF THE LEAD COOLED ELSY REACTOR
- 1.2 EVALUATION OF AN EXPERIMENTAL DATA SET TO BE VALIDATION DATA FOR CFD FOR A VHTR
- 1.3 LEAD PRESSURE LOSS IN THE HEAT EXCHANGER OF THE ELSY FAST LEAD-COOLED REACTOR BY CFD APPROACH
- 1.4 CFD CALCULATIONS OF WIRE WRAPPED FUEL BUNDLES: MODELING AND VALIDATION STRATEGIES
Session 2: Containment (1)
- 2.1 VALIDATION OF A SIMPLE CONDENSATION MODEL FOR SIMULATION OF GAS DISTRIBUTIONS IN CONTAINMENTS WITH CFX
- 2.2 ASSESSMENT OF THE GASFLOW SPRAY MODEL BASED ON THE CALCULATIONS OF THE TOSQAN EXPERIMENTS 101 AND 113
- 2.3 CFD MODELLING OF CONDENSATION OF VAPOUR IN THE PRESSURIZED PPOOLEX FACILITY
- 2.4 INVESTIGATION OF THE TURBULENT MASS TRANSPORT DURING THE MIXING OF A STABLE STRATIFICATION WITH A FREE JET USING CFD-METHODS
Session 3: Boiling-Bubbly Flow (1)
- 3.1 MODELING OF TURBULENT TRANSPORT TERM OF INTERFACIAL AREA CONCENTRATION IN GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW
- 3.2 APPLICABILITY OF TWO-PHASE CFD TO NUCLEAR REACTOR THERMALHYDRAULICS AND ELABORATION OF BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES
- 3.3 NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF CONDENSATION IN BUBBLY FLOW
- 3.4 VALIDATION OF NEPTUNE CFD 1.0.8 FOR ADIABATIC BUBBLY FLOW AND BOILING FLOW
Session 4: Bundle Flow
- 4.1 EXPERIMENTAL BENCHMARK DATA FOR PWR ROD BUNDLE WITH SPACER-GRIDS
- 4.2 CFD ANALYSIS OF THE MATIS-H EXPERIMENTS ON THE TURBULENT FLOW STRUCTURES IN A 5x5 ROD BUNDLE WITH MIXING DEVICES
- 4.3 CFD PREDICTION OF PRESSURE DROP FOR THE INLET REGION OF A PWR FUEL ASSEMBLY
- 4.4 NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE FLOW IN WIRE-WRAPPED PIN BUNDLES: EFFECT OF PIN-WIRE CONTACT MODELING
Session 5: Fire
- 5.1 VALIDATION PROCESS OF THE ISIS CFD SOFTWARE FOR FIRE SIMULATION
- 5.2 CFD ANALYSIS OF A HYDROGEN EXPLOSION TEST WITH HIGH IGNITION ENERGY IN OPEN SPACE
- 5.3 RECOMMENDATION FOR MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE MESH SIZE FOR PLANT COMBUSTION ANALYSES WITH CFD CODES
Session 6: Drycask
- 6.1 VALIDATION OF COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODE MODELS FOR USED FUEL DRY STORAGE SYSTEMS
- 6.2 A 2-D TEST PROBLEM FOR CFD MODELING HEAT TRANSFER IN SPENT FUEL TRANSFER CASK NEUTRON SHIELDS
- 6.3 PRESSURE DROP MEASUREMENT OF LAMINAR AIR FLOW IN PROTOTYPIC BWR AND PWR FUEL ASSEMBLIES
- 6.4 COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING APPROACH TO EVALUATE VSC–17 DRY STORAGE CASK THERMAL DESIGNS
- 6.5 VALIDATION OF THE FLUENT CFD COMPUTER PROGRAM BY THERMAL TESTING OF A FULL SCALE DOUBLE-WALLED PROTOTYPE CANISTER FOR STORING CHERNOBYL SPENT FUEL
Session 7: Advanced Reactors (2)
- 7.1 FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER ANALYSIS OF THE VHTR LOWER PLENUM USING THE FUEGO CFD CODE
- 7.2 EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS FOR PREDICTIVE COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS VALIDATION
- 7.3 PARTICLE DEPOSITION ON AN ARRAY OF SPHERES USING RANS-RSM COUPLED TO A LAGRANGIAN RANDOM WALK
- 7.4 UNSTEADY VALIDATION METRICS FOR CFD IN A CYLINDER ARRAY
Session 8: Boiling-Bubbly Flow (2)
- 8.1 ASSESSMENT OF THE HEAT TRANSFER MODEL AND TURBULENT WALL FUNCTIONS FOR TWO FLUID CFD SIMULATIONS OF SUBCOOLED AND SATURATED BOILING
- 8.2 PREDICTION OF A SUBCOOLED BOILING FLOW WITH MECHANISTIC WALL BOILING AND BUBBLE SIZE MODELS
- 8.2 (Abstract) PREDICTION OF A SUBCOOLED BOILING FLOW WITH MECHANISTIC WALL BOILING AND BUBBLE SIZE MODELS
- 8.3 CFD SIMULATION OF CRITICAL HEAT FLUX IN A TUBE
- 8.4 USE OF SYNCHRONIZED, INFRARED THERMOMETRY AND HIGH-SPEED VIDEO FOR GENERATION OF SPACE- AND TIME- RESOLVED HIGH-QUALITY DATA ON BOILING HEAT TRANSFER
Session 9: Mixing Flow (1)
- 9.1 CFD SIMULATIONS OF THE FLOW MIXING IN THE LOWER PLENUM OF PWR'S
- 9.2 DIRECT STEAM CONDENSATION MODELING FOR A PASSIVE PWR SAFETY SYSTEM
- 9.3 STUDY OF THERMAL STRATIFICATION AND MIXING USING PIV
- 9.4 CHALLENGES FOR THE EXTENSION OF LIMITED EXPERIMENTAL DATA TO FULL-SCALE SEVERE ACCIDENT CONDITIONS USING CFD
Session 10: Plant Applications
- 10.1 THREE-DIMENSIONAL POROUS MEDIA MODEL OF A HORIZONTAL STEAM GENERATOR
- 10.2 FIBRE AGGLOMERATE TRANSPORT IN A HORIZONTAL FLOW
- 10.3 LES WITH ACOUSTICS AND FSI FOR DEFORMING PLATES IN GAS FLOW
- 10.4 CFD CALCULATION OF THE PRESSURE DROP THROUGH A RUPTURE DISK
- 10.5 A SHALLOW WATER EQUATION SOLVER AND PARTICLE TRACKING METHOD TO EVALUATE THE DEBRIS TRANSPORT
Session 11: Pressurized Thermal Shock
- 11.1 PRE-TEST CFD SIMULATIONS ON TOPFLOW-PTS EXPERIMENTS WITH ANSYS CFX 12.0
- 11.2 TRANSIENT COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF EMERGENCY CORE COOLING INJECTION AT NATURAL CIRCULATION CONDITIONS
- 11.3 1 VALIDATION OF THE LARGE INTERFACE METHOD OF NEPTUNE CFD 1.0.8 FOR PRESSURIZED THERMAL SHOCK (PTS) APPLICATIONS
- 11.4 PTS PREDICTION USING THE CMFD CODE TransAT: THE COSI TEST CASE
Session 12: Containment (2)
- 12.1 VALIDATION OF CFD-MODELS FOR NATURAL CONVECTION, HEAT TRANSFER AND TURBULENCE PHENOMENA
- 12.2 TOWARD A CFD-GRADE DATABASE ADDRESSING LWR CONTAINMENT PHENOMENA
- 12.3 INTERACTION OF A LIGHT GAS STRATIFIED LAYER WITH AN AIR JET COMING FROM BELOW: LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS AND SCALING ISSUES
- 12.4 HYDROGEN DEFLAGRATION SIMULATIONS UNDER TYPICAL CONTAINMENT CONDITIONS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY
Session 13: Boiling-Bubbly Flow (3)
- 13.1 EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON STEAM BUBBLE CONDENSATION IN POLY-DISPERSED UPWARD VERTICAL PIPE FLOW
- 13.2 COUPLED LAGRANGIAN AND EULERIAN SIMULATION OF BUBBLY FLOWS IN VERTICAL PIPES: VALIDATION WITH EXPERIMENTAL DATA USING MULTISENSOR CONDUCTIVITY PROBES AND LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETRY
- 13.3 PREDICTION OF POLYDISPERSE STEAM BUBBLE CONDENSATION IN SUB-COOLED WATER USING THE INHOMOGENEOUS MUSIG MODEL
Session 14: Mixing Flow (2)
- 14.1 LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF A TURBULENT FLOW IN A T-JUNCTION
- 14.2 NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THERMAL-MIXING IN T-JUNCTION PIPING SYSTEM USING LARGE EDDY SIMULATION APPROACH
- 14.3 LARGE EDDY SIMULATIONS FOR THERMAL FATIGUE PREDICTIONS IN A T-JUNCTION: WALL-FUNCTION OR WALL-RESOLVE BASED LES?
- 14.4 TOWARDS EMPIRICISM-FREE LARGE EDDY SIMULATION FOR THERMO-HYDRAULIC PROBLEMS
- 14.5 DISPERSION OF RADIONUCLIDES AND RADIOLOGICAL DOSE COMPUTATION OVER A MESOSCALE DOMAIN USING WEATHER FORECAST AND CFD MODEL
Last reviewed: 20 March 2012