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Title: Experimental Benchmarking of Fire Modeling Simulations. Final Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/821804· OSTI ID:821804

A series of large-scale fire tests were performed at Sandia National Laboratories to simulate a nuclear waste transport package under severe accident conditions. The test data were used to benchmark and adjust the Container Analysis Fire Environment (CAFE) computer code. CAFE is a computational fluid dynamics fire model that accurately calculates the heat transfer from a large fire to a massive engulfed transport package. CAFE will be used in transport package design studies and risk analyses.

Research Organization:
University of Nevada, Reno (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-98ER45715
OSTI ID:
821804
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 8 Oct 2003
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English