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Title: Coupled In-Rock and In-Drift Hydrothermal Model Stuudy For Yucca Mountain

Abstract

A thermal-hydrologic-natural-ventilation model is configured for simulating temperature, humidity, and condensate distributions in the coupled domains of the in-drift airspace and the near-field rockmass in the proposed Yucca Mountain repository. The multi-physics problem is solved with MULTIFLUX in which a lumped-parameter computational fluid dynamics model is iterated with TOUGH2. The solution includes natural convection, conduction, and radiation for heat as well as moisture convection and diffusion for moisture transport with half waste package scale details in the drift, and mountain-scale heat and moisture transport in the porous and fractured rock-mass. The method provides fast convergence on a personal computer computational platform. Numerical examples and comparison with a TOUGH2 based, integrated model are presented.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Yucca Mountain Project, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
899326
Report Number(s):
NA
MOL.20061218.0177, DC# 48535; TRN: US0702139
DOE Contract Number:  
NA
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CONDENSATES; CONVECTION; CONVERGENCE; DIFFUSION; FLUID MECHANICS; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE; NATURAL CONVECTION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RADIATIONS; TRANSPORT; WASTES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN

Citation Formats

Danko, G, Birkholzer, J, and Bahrami, D. Coupled In-Rock and In-Drift Hydrothermal Model Stuudy For Yucca Mountain. United States: N. p., 2006. Web.
Danko, G, Birkholzer, J, & Bahrami, D. Coupled In-Rock and In-Drift Hydrothermal Model Stuudy For Yucca Mountain. United States.
Danko, G, Birkholzer, J, and Bahrami, D. 2006. "Coupled In-Rock and In-Drift Hydrothermal Model Stuudy For Yucca Mountain". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/899326.
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title = {Coupled In-Rock and In-Drift Hydrothermal Model Stuudy For Yucca Mountain},
author = {Danko, G and Birkholzer, J and Bahrami, D},
abstractNote = {A thermal-hydrologic-natural-ventilation model is configured for simulating temperature, humidity, and condensate distributions in the coupled domains of the in-drift airspace and the near-field rockmass in the proposed Yucca Mountain repository. The multi-physics problem is solved with MULTIFLUX in which a lumped-parameter computational fluid dynamics model is iterated with TOUGH2. The solution includes natural convection, conduction, and radiation for heat as well as moisture convection and diffusion for moisture transport with half waste package scale details in the drift, and mountain-scale heat and moisture transport in the porous and fractured rock-mass. The method provides fast convergence on a personal computer computational platform. Numerical examples and comparison with a TOUGH2 based, integrated model are presented.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2006},
month = {Mon Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2006}
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