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The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
A. K. Agrawal, R. S. Peckover
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1982 | Pages 32-46
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21402
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A method to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for irregular three-dimensional geometries is developed. The method consists of two stages. The first stage involves a coordinate transformation that regularizes the awkwardly shaped surfaces into planar ones by suitably stretching or “ironing out” uneven surfaces. This change of coordinates converts the physical space into a transformed space, which forms, in general, a nonorthogonal curvilinear system. The resulting Navier-Stokes equations now involve a few additional nonlinear terms but the boundary conditions can now be applied very simply and accurately. The boundary layers near the surface are resolved through the second stage involving another coordinate transformation such that only the boundary layers are broadened without substantially affecting the interior region. This transformation from the transformed space of the first stage to the computational space is orthogonal and results in a concentration of grids near the boundaries only. All of the basic mathematical formulations are given in this paper.