Rans and les investigations of vertical flows in the fuel passages of gas-cooled nuclear reactors

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 297-306

  Keshmiri, Amir ^a   Cotton, Mark A ^a   Addad, Yacine ^a   Rolfo, Stefano ^a   Billard, Flavien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convection; Eddy viscosity models; LES; RANS

Indexed keywords

CFD CODES; CONVECTION; CONVECTION FLOW; COOLANT FLOW; EDDY VISCOSITY MODEL; EDDY VISCOSITY MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAS-COOLED; HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; LAMINARIZATION; LES; NAVIER STOKES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; RANS; REYNOLDS; STAR-CD; THERMAL HYDRAULICS; TRIP CONDITION; TURBULENCE STRUCTURES; VERTICAL FLOWS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FORCED CONVECTION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; NUSSELT NUMBER; PETROLEUM REFINING; REACTOR SHUTDOWNS; SIMULATORS; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

EID: 70249087359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE16-48372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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