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The Nuclear Family: Empowering parents and caregivers
The Diversity and Inclusion in ANS Committee is hosting a webinar today to celebrate the contributions of parents in the nuclear industry while fostering diversity and inclusion within the community.
Register now: The webinar, from 1:00-2:00 pm ET, will highlight how the nuclear industry supports caregivers, new parents, and new mothers, and will focus on life transitions and parental responsibilities.
Nathan E. White, Robert V. Tompson, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 195 | Number 2 | February 2021 | Pages 137-147
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1793559
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Although aerosols in some postaccident nuclear environments can be nonspherical, chainlike, or agglomerates, there have been limited investigations of the rate processes (such as coagulation, evaporation, condensation, and deposition) involving such particles. In a previous investigation, the understandings of condensation and evaporation on such particles were expanded through use of a one-speed approximation for modeling vapor (or fission product) molecular transport, and the present paper extends that work to energy- and mass-dependent transport of vapor molecules within the context of the linear Boltzmann equation via the Monte Carlo particle transport method for rigid sphere molecules. The results are benchmarked against available numerical results and experimental data for a single sphere, and it is found again that the normalized condensation rate has only a weak dependence on the molecular mass ratio (vapor to background) and that the one-speed approximation is quite good. Results are reported for a range of chainlike and agglomerate aerosols.