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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
Joseph L. Bottini, Caleb S. Brooks
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 12 | December 2023 | Pages 1987-2001
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2022.2156244
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The Two-Fluid Model (TFM) has long been the backbone of engineering-scale two-phase flow simulation in system-analysis codes and computational fluid dynamics codes. The classical TFM is limited in how it can capture the differences in the transport of small and large bubbles. The two-group TFM provides the ability to specify the unique transport characteristics of small and large bubbles separately. Expanding to two sets of conservation equations for the two bubble groups presents the additional challenge of bubble group accounting as bubbles can cross the group boundary. The three mass transfer terms in the two-group TFM are evaluated for flashing, condensing, and boiling flows using a partitioning method. The axial trends in the source terms are examined for these flow conditions with the available intergroup models. Two-group interphase models are implemented and evaluated against experimental data for flashing, condensing, and boiling flows with accurate two-group results. The capabilities of the two-group TFM are evaluated for these flow types, demonstrating the ability to predict two-group vapor properties without the need for flow regime transitions.