4. System thermal hydraulics for liquid metals
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- ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies
- Argonne National Laboratory
- UniPi - Università di Pisa
- CEA Saclay - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique
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Abstract
The system thermal hydraulics chapter deals with the specific modeling challenges arising from using a liquid metal in a system thermal-hydraulic simulation code. Challenges related to heat transfer, hydrodynamic models, and thermodynamic properties are explained. Subsequently, the RELAP5/Mod3.3 modified code is shortly introduced, and its application to design and analysis of a liquid-metal experimental facility is shown as an example. Finally, other similar codes suited for liquid-metal-cooled reactor system modeling are introduced, that is, CATHARE, ATHLET, SPECTRA, and SAS4A/SASSYS-1.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Thermal Hydraulics Aspects of Liquid Metal Cooled Nuclear Reactors |
| Publisher | WP - Woodhead Publishing |
| Pages | 157-184 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-08-101980-1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Dec 2018 |
Keywords
- Liquid-metal-cooled reactors, Thermal hydraulics, System thermal hydraulics, Simulation codes
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