NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE SPREADING AND HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS OF EX-VESSEL CORE MELT

The flow and heat transfer characteristics of the ex-vessel core melt (corium) were investigated using a commercial CFD code along with the experimental data on the spreading of corium available in the literature (VULCANO VE-U7 test). In the numerical simulation of the unsteady two-phase flow, the v...

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Main Authors: IN-SOO YE, JEONGEUN ALICE KIM, CHANGKOOK RYU, KWANG SOON HA, HWAN YEOL KIM, JINHO SONG
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-02-01
Series:Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573315300036