Review of thermal-hydraulic issues and studies of lead-based fast reactors

Y Zhang, C Wang, Z Lan, S Wei, R Chen, W Tian… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
The lead-based reactor is one of the fourth-generation nuclear energy systems with
excellent development prospects. It has attracted much attention because of its unique …

An overview of the AHFM-NRG formulations for the accurate prediction of turbulent flow and heat transfer in low-Prandtl number flows

A Shams, A De Santis, F Roelofs - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2019 - Elsevier
Turbulent heat transfer is a complex phenomenon, which is ubiquitous in engineering
applications and has challenged turbulence modellers for several decades. In an attempt to …

Status and perspectives of turbulent heat transfer modelling in low-Prandtl number fluids

A Shams, A De Santis, LK Koloszar, AV Ortiz… - … Engineering and Design, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermal-hydraulics is recognized as a key safety challenge in the development of liquid
metal cooled reactors. At nominal operating conditions, the Prandtl number of liquid metals …

State-of-the-art turbulent heat flux modelling for low-Prandtl flows

A Mathur, F Roelofs, M Fiore, L Koloszar - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Turbulent heat transfer is a complex phenomenon, which has become the focus of
turbulence modelling research in recent years. The closure of turbulent heat flux has …

Liquid metal thermal hydraulics: State-of-the-art and future perspectives

F Roelofs - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2020 - Elsevier
The energy consumption worldwide will increase for the coming decades. In order to
address global warming, international experts agree that no low CO 2 emitting energy …

Status, perspectives, and added value of high fidelity simulations for safety and design

EMJ Komen, A Mathur, F Roelofs, E Merzari… - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increase in computational power, High Fidelity (HiFi) simulations become
increasingly important to nuclear thermal hydraulics for fundamental understanding of …

Influence of buoyancy in a mixed convection liquid metal flow for a horizontal channel configuration

W Guo, A Shams, Y Sato, B Niceno - International Journal of Heat and Fluid …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article presents the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of mixed convection turbulent
heat transfer in a horizontal channel case for liquid lead. Cartesian mesh is used and the …

Numerical study of low Pr flow in a bare 19-rod bundle based on an advanced turbulent heat transfer model

X Li, X Su, L Gu, L Zhang, X Sheng - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Compared to assuming a constant turbulent Prandtl number model, an advanced four-
equation model has the potential to improve the numerical heat transfer calculation accuracy …

Analysis of turbulent flow and thermal structures in low-Prandtl number buoyant flows using direct numerical simulations

S Bhushan, M Elmellouki, DK Walters… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
A direct numerical simulation (DNS) database is presented for turbulent flow and heat
transfer in a vertical channel for Reynolds number Re τ= 150 and 640, Prandtl number Pr …

A collaborative effort towards the accurate prediction of turbulent flow and heat transfer in low-Prandtl number fluids

A Shams, F Roelofs, I Tiselj, J Oder… - … Engineering and Design, 2020 - Elsevier
This article reports the experimental and DNS database that has been generated, within the
framework of the EU SESAME and MYRTE projects, for various low-Prandtl flow …