Calculation of post-closure natural convection heat and mass transfer in Yucca Mountain drifts

Proceedings of the ASME Heat Transfer/Fluids Engineering Summer Conference 2004, HT/FED 2004

Volumn 2 B, Issue , 2004, Pages 1101-1108

  Webb, Stephen W ^a   Itamura, Michael T ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA ACQUISITION; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DISCRETE ORDINATES (DO); DRIP SHIELD; VOLUMETRIC HEAT GENERATION; WALL FUNCTIONS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 21544474977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ht-fed2004-56611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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