Development of Mechanistic Modeling Capabilities for Generation-IV Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactor (SCWR)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (United States)
- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of selected issues concerning the experimental investigations and theoretical/computational analysis, aimed at mechanistic multidimensional modeling of flow and heat transfer in SCWR. In particular, the following issues are discussed: the development of a new data base for fluid flow and heat transfer in water at supercritical pressures, development of full three-dimensional computational modeling framework for CFD simulations of SCWR thermal-hydraulics using the NPHASE code, and an analysis on the effect of temperature-dependent properties of water near the pseudo-critical point on local multidimensional phenomena of fluid mechanics and heat transfer in SCWR coolant channels. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21021060
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2006 International congress on advances in nuclear power plants - ICAPP'06, Reno - Nevada (United States), 4-8 Jun 2006; Other Information: Country of input: France; 5 refs; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the 2006 international congress on advances in nuclear power plants - ICAPP'06, 2734 pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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