Simulation of plenum thermo-hydraulics in a liquid metal fast breeder reactor under a buoyancy-affected condition
dc.contributor.author | Chen, Min-jen | |
dc.contributor.department | Nuclear Engineering | |
dc.date | 2018-08-17T03:22:39.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-02T06:07:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-02T06:07:03Z | |
dc.date.copyright | Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 1983 | |
dc.date.issued | 1983 | |
dc.description.abstract | <p>The thermohydraulics of the LMFBR upper plenum under buoyancy - affected condition has been investigated. It was found that under low flow, thermal stratified conditions, reduced-scale sodium simulation cannot accurately predict the full-scale LMFBR upper plenum behavior. However, water is an adequate test fluid for prediction of full-scale LMFBR thermohydraulic behavior. It was also found that the threshold Peclet number above which convection dominates the heat transfer is about 10;A three-dimensional transient computer code PLENMIX which is a simplified version of COMMIX-1A has been used for the analysis. It was found that the PLENMIX code can accurately predict temperature transients. Comparisons were made with measured temperature distributions in a plenum simulation test. It was also shown that the adequacy of scaling laws can be determined by the PLENMIX code in a plenum simulation.</p> | |
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dc.identifier | archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/8460/ | |
dc.identifier.articleid | 9459 | |
dc.identifier.contextkey | 6335092 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.31274/rtd-180813-8561 | |
dc.identifier.s3bucket | isulib-bepress-aws-west | |
dc.identifier.submissionpath | rtd/8460 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/81451 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.source.bitstream | archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/8460/r_8407059.pdf|||Sat Jan 15 02:11:54 UTC 2022 | |
dc.subject.disciplines | Nuclear Engineering | |
dc.subject.keywords | Nuclear engineering | |
dc.title | Simulation of plenum thermo-hydraulics in a liquid metal fast breeder reactor under a buoyancy-affected condition | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.type.genre | dissertation | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |
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