Simulation of melt pool behaviour during additive manufacturing: Underlying physics and progress

PS Cook, AB Murphy - Additive Manufacturing, 2020 - Elsevier
Reliable computational models of metal additive manufacturing will assist in optimising part
quality, and are likely to play a role in component qualification. A key component of these …

Thermal conductivity of metal powders for powder bed additive manufacturing

LC Wei, LE Ehrlich, MJ Powell-Palm… - Additive …, 2018 - Elsevier
The thermal conductivities of five metal powders for powder bed additive manufacturing
(Inconel 718, 17-4 stainless steel, Inconel 625, Ti-6Al-4V, and 316L stainless steel) were …

Fluidized bed technology for concentrating solar power with thermal energy storage

Z Ma, G Glatzmaier, M Mehos - Journal of solar …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A generalized modeling method is introduced and used to evaluate thermal energy storage
(TES) performance. The method describes TES performance metrics in terms of three …

Effective thermal conductivity of advanced ceramic breeder pebble beds

S Pupeschi, R Knitter, M Kamlah - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2017 - Elsevier
As the knowledge of the effective thermal conductivity of ceramic breeder pebble beds under
fusion relevant conditions is essential for the development of solid breeder blanket concepts …

Review of the experimental research on the thermal‐hydraulic characteristics in the pebble bed nuclear reactor core and fusion breeder blankets

L Liu, J Deng, D Zhang, H Gu - International Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Merits in the inherent safety characteristics and multiple applications, cause the pebble‐bed‐
type nuclear reactors, including the High‐Temperature Gas‐cooled Reactors, Fluoride‐salt …

Rapid analysis of packed pebble beds for thermal–hydraulic characteristics via reduced order models

S Yu, Z Zhang, C Peng, T Bai - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the pebble bed module has garnered increased attention due to its inherent
safety and versatile applications, particularly in the form of High-Temperature Gas-Cooled …

Investigation of effective thermal conductivity for pebble beds by one-way coupled CFD-DEM method for CFETR WCCB

L Chen, Y Chen, K Huang, S Liu - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2016 - Elsevier
The mono-sized beryllium pebble bed and the multi-sized Li 2 TiO 3/Be 12 Ti mixed pebble
bed are the main schemes for the Water-cooled ceramic breeder blanket (WCCB) of China …

Numerical study of natural convection effects on effective thermal conductivity in a pebble bed

S Bu, Z Li, Z Ma, W Sun, L Zhang, D Chen - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The effective thermal conductivity (ETC) is a key parameter of the heat transfer models in
high temperature pebble-bed reactors. The ETC in a simple cubic packed bed of graphite …

Fabrication of nanostructured Li2TiO3 ceramic pebbles as tritium breeders using powder particles synthesised via a CTAB-assisted method

H Wang, M Yang, Y Gong, L Feng, C Dang, Y Shi… - Ceramics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Nanostructured Li 2 TiO 3 ceramics which may have effective thermal conductivity,
excellent tritium release behaviour and good irradiation resistance are regarded as a …

Numerical prediction of packing behavior and thermal conductivity of pebble beds according to pebble size distributions and friction coefficients

D Sohn, Y Lee, MY Ahn, YH Park, S Cho - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2018 - Elsevier
In the design process of a solid-type ceramic breeding blanket, it is important to identify the
characteristics of functional materials in the form of pebble beds. In this study, the …