4. System thermal hydraulics for liquid metals

Nicola Forgione; Diego Castelliti; Antoine Gerschenfeld; Massimiliano Polidori; Alessandro Del Nevo; Rui Hu

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-101980-1.00004-1

4. System thermal hydraulics for liquid metals

Nicola Forgione
, Diego Castelliti
, Antoine Gerschenfeld
, Massimiliano Polidori
, Alessandro Del Nevo
, Rui Hu

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Abstract

The system thermal hydraulics chapter deals with the specific modeling challenges arising from using a liquid metal in a system thermal-hydraulic simulation code. Challenges related to heat transfer, hydrodynamic models, and thermodynamic properties are explained. Subsequently, the RELAP5/Mod3.3 modified code is shortly introduced, and its application to design and analysis of a liquid-metal experimental facility is shown as an example. Finally, other similar codes suited for liquid-metal-cooled reactor system modeling are introduced, that is, CATHARE, ATHLET, SPECTRA, and SAS4A/SASSYS-1.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Thermal Hydraulics Aspects of Liquid Metal Cooled Nuclear Reactors
Publisher	WP - Woodhead Publishing
Pages	157-184
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Print)	978-0-08-101980-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-101980-1.00004-1
State	Published - 5 Dec 2018

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