Advanced Reactor Thermal Hydraulics: I

Effect of Leak in the Upper Vessel Head of HTGRs on Onset of Natural Circulation

1:00–1:20PM CDT

Daniel W. Gould (Kansas State University), John M. Matulis (Purdue University), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue University)

Validation of Forced Convection Simulations for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Air-Cooled Reactor Cavity Cooling System

1:20–1:40PM CDT

Sinan Okyay (Pennsylvania State University), David Reger (Idaho National Laboratory), Victor Coppo Leite (Idaho National Laboratory), Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University), Paolo Balestra (Idaho National Laboratory), Gerhard Strydom (Idaho National Laboratory)

Improvements of the Reactor Vessel Auxiliary Cooling System (RVACS) Models within SAS4A/SASSYS-1

1:40–2:00PM CDT

Yeongshin Jeong (Argonne National Laboratory), Daniel O'Grady (Argonne National Laboratory), Acacia J. Brunett (Argonne National Laboratory)

A One-Dimensional Modelling Approach for Thermal Mixing and Stratification in Nuclear Reactors: Numerical Verification and Demonstration

2:00–2:20PM CDT

Eric Cervi (Argonne National Laboratory), Grégoire Lebrun (Argonne National Laboratory), Ling Zou (Argonne National Laboratory), Rui Hu (Argonne National Laboratory)

Simulations of Twisted Tape Inserts of Varying Twist Pitches to Understand Thermal Hydraulic Impacts in Fusion Energy Systems

2:20–2:40PM CDT

Gavin Standish (Virginia Commonwealth University), Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth University), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth University)