Thermal laminarization of a stratified pipe flow

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6926294

Oras, J J; Kasza, K E

The present work constitutes a new program that grew out of a scoping assessment by ANL to determine the propensity for pipe stratification to occur in the reactor outlet nozzles and hot-leg piping of a generic LMFBR during events producing reverse pipe flow. This paper focuses on the role that thermal buoyancy plays relative to being able to laminarize a turbulent stratified shear zone in a horizontal pipe. The preceeding can influence the behavior of a pipe stratified-backflow-recirculation zone (cold plenum water down into the hot pipe flow) which developes as the result of a temperature difference between the pipe flow and the plenum.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6926294
• Report Number(s): CONF-840614-22; ON: DE84006407
• Resource Relation: Conference: Annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society, New Orleans, LA, USA, 3 Jun 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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