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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
I.-W. Yu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 1 | January 1986 | Pages 157-161
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17876
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The finite element solution of fluid/structure interaction problems is considered for a class of acousto-elastic problems where the fluid is linear acoustic and the structure is linear elastic. The finite element formulation in terms of fluid pressure and structural displacement results in a system of unsymmetric equations. Due to the complexities of eigensolution for large systems involving unsymmetric matrices, little progress has been reported. Recently, Yu showed that the real form of QZ algorithm can be used for solving small unsymmetric eigenproblems of fluid/structure interaction, and, as a major advance, now presents the use of the subspace iteration method, in conjunction with the QZ algorithm, for solving large fluid/structure systems. The computational procedure is similar to that for the real symmetric case, and the procedure can easily be adopted by any finite element code.