Numerical investigation of bent pipe flows at transitional Reynolds number

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 916-920

  Pellegrini, Marco ^a   Endo, Hiroshi ^b   Ninokata, Hisashi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN NUCLEAR ENERGY SAFETY ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bent pipes; CFD; Fully developed pipes; Transitional Reynolds number

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WALL FUNCTION;

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS; BUOYANCY DRIVEN FLOWS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; REMOVAL PROCESS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

REYNOLDS EQUATION;

EID: 80054089292     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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