Selection of an appropriate turbulence model to evaluate performances of novel fuel geometries for the "IRIS" reactor

Proceedings of the ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference

Volumn 2 C, Issue , 2003, Pages 2075-2083

  Baglietto, Emilio ^a   Ninokata, Hisashi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTOR LICENSING; NUCLEAR REACTORS; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

ANISOTROPIC EFFECTS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 0347530049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/fedsm2003-45429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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