ALICE: a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian code for calculating fluid-structure interaction transients in fast-reactor containment. [LMFBR]
This report describes a reactor-containment code, ALICE, which uses an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method to describe the coolant motion, together with a Lagrangian method to analyze the response of the containment vessel and other solid media inside a reactor containment. The finite-difference formulation used to approximate the governing equations for the motion of the coolant can be solved in either an explicit or an implicit scheme; the finite-element formulation used to approximate the governing equations for the containment vessel and other solid media can be performed only in the explicit scheme. Thus, the ALICE code can perform two types of coupling calculations for the fluid and structure (implicit-explicit and explicit-explicit). The code is generalized so that it can apply to problems either in a two-dimensional Cartesian or in a two-dimensional cylindrical-coordinate system.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 5777515
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-79-72; TRN: 80-002488
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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