Computational modeling and analysis of a flow in a storage room
- Zukun
- Snezana
- Jeffrey J.
When a radioactive material gas is accidentally released with a room, the present of the hazardous gas will directly affect the people safety inside. In this study, the flow field and gas dispersion in a ventilated tritium storage room at Los Alamos National Laboratory was simulated using CFX-5.5, a commercially available CFD package using a finite volume methodology. CFD models provide a simultaneously numerical solution of continuity, Navier-Stokes, and energy equations for a flow field geometry with specified boundary conditions. CFX-5 uses a coupled solver, which solves the hydrodynamic equations (for u, v, w, p) as a single system. This reduces the number of iterations required for convergence to a steady state, and to a transient analysis solution for each time step in time-dependant gas dispersion as well.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 976423
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-02-6861; TRN: US201018%%1245
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: "Submitted to the: 2003 AMSE Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting June 6 - 10, Honolulu, Hawaii"
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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