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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).
Nikolay Ivanov Kolev
Nuclear Technology | Volume 83 | Number 1 | October 1988 | Pages 65-80
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34176
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High-pressure gas injection into a low-pressure liquid pool with a free surface in cylindrical geometry with internals was numerically simulated using the computer code IVA2/005. Bubble formation and pressure history as a function of time were predicted and compared with the experimental observation for a 0.6-MPa pressure source. A comparison with the previous prediction of a 1.1-MPa pressure source experiment is made. Numerical diffusion and flow pattern prediction influence the gas propagation, which influences in turn the sharpness of the predicted bubble and water surface and the pressure history in time. The same geometry, but with a gas, was computationally simulated. The comparison proves that the code integrator works well without a constitutive package. Methods to measure the reduction of numerical diffusion are proposed. Comparison with the tree acoustic experiments shows that IVA2 can simulate pressure wave phenomena in two-phase two-component mixtures with strong nonhomogeneity.