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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Bingjing Su, G. C. Pomraning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 120 | Number 2 | June 1995 | Pages 75-90
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24109
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The problem of describing particle transport through a Markovian stochastic mixture of two immiscible materials is generally approximated by the so-called Levermore model, consisting of two coupled transport equations. In this paper, the P2 diffusive equations and the associated boundary conditions for this Levermore model are derived in planar geometry by using a variational principle, and numerical results comparing P2, P1, and S16 (benchmark) calculations are presented. These results demonstrate that the P2 equations are considerably more accurate than the P1 equations away from boundary layers. An asymptotic diffusion approximation to this model is also explored with several different boundary conditions, and the overall conclusion is that the asymptotic diffusion treatment is in general inferior to P2 theory, and its superiority over P1 theory is not overwhelming and not consistent.