Three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of dry spent nuclear fuel storage canisters
One of the interim storage configurations being considered for aluminum-clad foreign research reactor fuel, such as the Material and Testing Reactor (MTR) design, is in a dry storage facility. To support design studies of storage options, a computational and experimental program was conducted at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The objective was to develop computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models which would be benchmarked using data obtained from a full scale heat transfer experiment conducted in the SRS Experimental Thermal Fluids Laboratory. The current work documents the CFD approach and presents comparison of results with experimental data. CFDS-FLOW3D (version 3.3) CFD code has been used to model the 3-dimensional convective velocity and temperature distributions within a single dry storage canister of MTR fuel elements. For the present analysis, the Boussinesq approximation was used for the consideration of buoyancy-driven natural convection. Comparison of the CFD code can be used to predict reasonably accurate flow and thermal behavior of a typical foreign research reactor fuel stored in a dry storage facility.
- Research Organization:
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-89SR18035
- OSTI ID:
- 525054
- Report Number(s):
- WSRC-MS-96-0794; CONF-970321-10; ON: DE97060117; TRN: 97:018376
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: National spring meeting and petrochemical exposition of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and 2. plant operations and design conference, Houston, TX (United States), 10-13 Mar 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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