Standard thermal problem set for the evaluation of heat transfer codes used in the assessment of transportation packages
The design and certification of packages used for the shipment of nuclear materials requires that well established analytical techniques are available to predict the behavior of the packagings during normal transport and hypothetical accident environments. The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), through the Nuclear Energy Agency's Committee on Reactor Physics (NEACRP), has established specialists' meetings in the areas of heat transfer, criticality, and shielding. The subject of this paper is the work resulting from the Specialists' Meetings on the Heat Transfer Assessment of Transportation Packages. The heat transfer group held its first meeting in April 1985 with the purpose of defining a set of thermal benchmark problems and providing solutions. A set of six two-dimensional thermal problems has been defined and analytical solutions provided. These problems, and the corresponding solutions, are provided in this report. In addition, magnetic tapes, including computer code input and output, are being provided to the NEA Data Bank. The codes used to provide numerical analysis range from the cask specific codes such as RIGG to general purpose codes such as Q/TRAN. These codes were all used in the two-dimensional mode although many were capable of solving three-dimensional problems. 15 figs., 17 tabs.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); UKAEA Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith; British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., London; CEA, 75 - Paris (France); E. M. Systems (Sweden); ENEA, Rome (Italy); Nuclear Energy Agency, 75 - Paris (France)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 7056441
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-88-0380; TTC-0783; ON: DE89001035
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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