Reactor supercomputer applications

Application of Supercomputers To Model Fluid Itansport and Chemical Kinetics in Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactors... 

The model presented here is a significant step forward in the simulation of fixed bed catalytic reactors. It is an early computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the continuum type. In recent years supercomputers have led to an increased application of CFD to studies of heat transfer in packed beds. In modeling the fluid flow in the voids confined by the catalyst particles, Nijemeisland and Dixon [2004] investigated the possibility of deriving values for the heat transfer coefficient between the bed and the wall in terms of the local properties of the flow field, but found no statistically valid correlation. They... 

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Laureau, A., Aufiero, M., Rubiolo, P., Merle-Lucotte, E., Heuer, D., 2015a. Coupled neutronics and thermal-hydraubcs transient calculations based on a fission matrix approach application to the molten salt fast reactor. In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, USA. 

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