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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Nicolay Ivanov Kolev
Nuclear Technology | Volume 78 | Number 2 | August 1987 | Pages 95-131
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A33990
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IVA 2/001 is a computer code for simulating transient, three-dimensional, three-phase, three-component nonhomogeneous (three velocity fields), nonequilibrium flow in a cylindrical porous body (including nuclear reactor cores if desired). Each velocity field consists of an inert and a noninert component. A separated equation of field mass, inert mass concentration in each of the fields, and entropy of the fields together with mixture momentum equations for the flow are solved by a semi-implicit numerical method with an analytical reduction to the pressure or pressure velocity problem and backward substitution. The flexibility of the method in describing three velocity fields of arbitrary direction is demonstrated. The solution procedure of the hydrodynamic problem is described. Finally, a numerical example and a comparison with experimental data demonstrate that the IVA2 method is a powerful tool for numerical multiphase flow simulation.