Standard thermal problem set

Conference · Sat Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6252884

Glass, R. E.; Burgess, M.; Livesey, E.; Geoffrey, J.; Bourdon, S.; Mennerdahl, D.; Cherubini, A.; Giambuzzi, S.; Nagel, P.

Beginning in April 1985, a working group on heat transfer met under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Committee on Reactor Safety to define a standard problem set which could be used to benchmark codes used to predict cask thermal response. The problem definitions and solutions which resulted from these meetings as described in ''Standard Thermal Problem Set for the Evaluation of Heat Transfer Codes Used in the Assessment of Transportation Packages,'' R.E. Glass, et al., Sandia National Laboratories, 1988 are summarized in this paper. The problems that were defined address each of the major heat transfer mechanisms (conduction, convection, and radiation) that occur in a cask both during normal transport and as a result of the all- engulfing fire scenario. The problems were kept geometrically simple to minimize the resources required to obtain a solution while still addressing actual phenomena. This has resulted in a set of one- and two-dimensional problems. The solutions to this problem set include closed form analytical solutions, experimental data, and consensus of numerical solutions. For each problem the range of numerical solutions are presented. 1 ref., 4 figs., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6252884
• Report Number(s): SAND-89-0923C; CONF-890631-6; ON: DE89011885
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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