Advanced Reactor Thermal Hydraulics: I

Effect of Leak in the Upper Vessel Head of HTGRs on Onset of Natural Circulation

1:00–1:20PM CDT

Daniel W. Gould (Kansas State), John M. Matulis (Purdue Univ.), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue Univ.)

Validation of Forced Convection Simulations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Air-Cooled Reactor Cavity Cooling System

1:20–1:40PM CDT

Sinan Okyay (Penn State), David Reger (INL), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Paolo Balestra (INL), Gerhard Strydom (INL)

Improvements of the Reactor Vessel Auxiliary Cooling System (RVACS) Models within SAS4A/SASSYS-1

1:40–2:00PM CDT

Yeongshin Jeong (ANL), Daniel O'Grady (ANL), Acacia J. Brunett (ANL)

A One-Dimensional Modelling Approach for Thermal Mixing and Stratification in Nuclear Reactors: Numerical Verification and Demonstration

2:00–2:20PM CDT

Eric Cervi (ANL), Grégoire Lebrun (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)

Simulations of Twisted Tape Inserts of Varying Twist Pitches to Understand Thermal Hydraulic Impacts in Fusion Energy Systems

2:20–2:40PM CDT

Gavin Standish (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)