• Title of article

    Multi-pinmodellingofPWRfuelpinballooningduringpost-LOCArefloodOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    L.Ammirabile، نويسنده , , S.P.Walker، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    11
  • From page
    1448
  • To page
    1458
  • Abstract
    Experimentsinvestigatingpost-LOCArefloodgenerallyindicatelittlecoherencetofuelpinballooning,andanabsenceofsignificantblockagesandun-coolableregionsofthecore.Computationalmodellingisunabletopredictthis;theusual‘representativepin’modelsneithertakeintoaccounttheheterogeneityofthecore,norincorporatethedynamiccouplingbetweenthechangingcoregeometry,andtheflowpathstakenbythecoolant.Inthispaperwepresentacompositemodel,abletotreatdistinctpinsmechanistically,andabletoincorporatetheir(distinct)swellingbehaviourintothethermal–hydraulicmodelofthereflood,allowingthecoolingofapintobedirectlyaffectedbythedeformationofitselfanditsneighbours.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    895103