High-cycle thermal fatigue in mixing tees: Large-eddy simulations compared to a new validation experiment

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 515-525

  Westin, Johan ^a   Veber, Pascal ^b   Andersson, Lars ^b   Mannetje, Carsten't ^c   Andersson, Urban ^a   Eriksson, Jan ^a   Henriksson, Mats ^a   Alavyoon, Farid ^c   Andersson, Claes ^a  

^a RINGHALS AB   (Sweden)

^b Onsala lngenjOrsbyrã AB   (Sweden)

^c Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MESH; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; DETACHED EDDY SIMULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FLOW DOMAINS; GRID REFINEMENT; GRID RESOLUTION; INLET BOUNDARY; LARGE-SCALE INSTABILITY; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; MEAN VELOCITY PROFILES; MIXING TEE; NEAR-WALL; PIPE WALLS; SMALL SCALE TURBULENCE; T JUNCTIONS; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; THERMAL MIXING; TURBULENT VISCOSITY; WALL-SHEAR STRESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW SIMULATION; FORECASTING; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 70249129070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE16-48731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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