Development and assessment of the CONTAIN hybrid flow solver

Conference · Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 1997

OSTI ID:537369

Murata, K K; Stamps, D W

A new gravitational head formulation for the treatment of stratified flows has been developed for CONTAIN, a lumped-parameter code used primarily for the analysis of postulated accidents in nuclear power plants. This new hybrid formulation is discussed and compared in this paper with the old, average-density CONTAIN formulation. In addition, these formulations are assessed against experimental data from three large-scale experiments in which stratified conditions were observed. These are the NUPEC M-8-1, Surtsey ST-3, and the HDR E11.2 experiments.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States); Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 537369
• Report Number(s): SAND-97-1611C; CONF-971125-6; ON: DE97007123; BR: 401001060; TRN: 98:008366
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1997 American Nuclear Society (ANS) winter meeting, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 16-20 Nov 1997; Other Information: PBD: 20 Jun 1997
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
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