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ALICE: a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian code for calculating fluid-structure interaction transients in fast-reactor containment. [LMFBR]
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5777515
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-79-72
TRN: 80-002488
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; COMPUTER CODES; A CODES; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR VESSELS; TRANSIENTS; HYDRAULICS; PRESSURE GRADIENTS; LIQUID FLOW; REACTOR SAFETY; STRESSES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; BREEDER REACTORS; CONTAINERS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; FLUID FLOW; FLUID MECHANICS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; MECHANICS; REACTORS; SAFETY; 220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety; 210500 - Power Reactors, Breeding
Citation Formats
Chu, H. Y. ALICE: a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian code for calculating fluid-structure interaction transients in fast-reactor containment. [LMFBR]. United States: N. p., 1979.
Web. doi:10.2172/5777515.
Chu, H. Y. ALICE: a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian code for calculating fluid-structure interaction transients in fast-reactor containment. [LMFBR]. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5777515
Chu, H. Y. 1979.
"ALICE: a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian code for calculating fluid-structure interaction transients in fast-reactor containment. [LMFBR]". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5777515. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5777515.
@article{osti_5777515,
title = {ALICE: a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian code for calculating fluid-structure interaction transients in fast-reactor containment. [LMFBR]},
author = {Chu, H. Y.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.2172/5777515},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5777515},
journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1979},
month = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1979}
}