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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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How to talk about nuclear
In your career as a professional in the nuclear community, chances are you will, at some point, be asked (or volunteer) to talk to at least one layperson about the technology you know and love. You might even be asked to present to a whole group of nonnuclear folks, perhaps as a pitch to some company tangential to your company’s business. So, without further ado, let me give you some pointers on the best way to approach this important and surprisingly complicated task.
R. W. Shumway, D. M. McEligot
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 46 | Number 3 | December 1971 | Pages 394-407
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22376
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Numerical results for laminar gas flow in annuli, with fluid properties varying due to their temperature dependence, have been obtained for both fully developed and uniform entry velocity profiles by solving the coupled boundary layer equations in finite difference form. All annuli computations were made with a radius ratio of 0.25, which differs sufficiently from the limiting cases of circular tubes and parallel plates to portray annular geometry well. In addition to variable property results, predictions were obtained for three of four fundamental, constant property solutions with uniform entering velocity profiles. The fourth solution is available in the literature but the approximate velocity distribution is in error in the entrance region, so a new hydrodynamic solution is presented as well.