Numerical simulations of turbulent flow fields caused by spraying of water on large releases of hydrogen fluoride

Conference · Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5194116

Fthenakis, V M ^[1]; Schatz, K W ^[2]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
2. Mobil Research and Development Corp., Princeton, NJ (United States)

The effectiveness of water sprays in absorbing HF releases was recently demonstrated in extended laboratory and field tests. In this paper, computer simulations are presented of the Hawk, Nevada Test Site, series of field tests. The model used, HFSPRAY, is a Eulerean/Lagrangian model which simulates the momentum, mass and energy interactions between a water spray and a turbulent plume of HF in air; the model can predict the flow velocities, temperature, water vapor, and HF concentration fields in two-dimensional large- geometries for spraying in any direction, (i.e., down-flow, inclined-down-flow, up-flow, and co-current horizontal flow). The model was validated against recent data on spraying of water on large releases of HF. 17 refs., 11 figs., 4 tabs.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5194116
• Report Number(s): BNL-46550; CONF-911213-9; ON: DE92000127
• Resource Relation: Conference: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) annual winter meeting, Atlanta, GA (United States), 1-6 Dec 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
DROPLETS
TRAJECTORIES
HYDROFLUORIC ACID
ABSORPTION
WATER
SPRAYS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
TURBULENT FLOW
FLUID FLOW
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INORGANIC ACIDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLES
SIMULATION
540120* - Environment
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990200 - Mathematics & Computers