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Colin Judge: Testing structural materials in Idaho’s newest hot cell facility
Idaho National Laboratory’s newest facility—the Sample Preparation Laboratory (SPL)—sits across the road from the Hot Fuel Examination Facility (HFEF), which started operating in 1975. SPL will host the first new hot cells at INL’s Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) in 50 years, giving INL researchers and partners new flexibility to test the structural properties of irradiated materials fresh from the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) or from a partner’s facility.
Materials meant to withstand extreme conditions in fission or fusion power plants must be tested under similar conditions and pushed past their breaking points so performance and limitations can be understood and improved. Once irradiated, materials samples can be cut down to size in SPL and packaged for testing in other facilities at INL or other national laboratories, commercial labs, or universities. But they can also be subjected to extreme thermal or corrosive conditions and mechanical testing right in SPL, explains Colin Judge, who, as INL’s division director for nuclear materials performance, oversees SPL and other facilities at the MFC.
SPL won’t go “hot” until January 2026, but Judge spoke with NN staff writer Susan Gallier about its capabilities as his team was moving instruments into the new facility.
Yassin A. Hassan, Hagop R. Barsamian
Nuclear Technology | Volume 128 | Number 1 | October 1999 | Pages 58-74
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A3014
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The dynamic subgrid-scale (DSGS) closure model is used in a large eddy simulation computer program for incompressible isothermal flows. One of the advantages of the DSGS model is the exclusion of a model coefficient. This model coefficient is evaluated dynamically at each nodal location for a given time step by filtering operations on the grid level and a test filter level. A nonstaggered array tube bundle geometry arrangement is considered in doubly periodic boundary conditions for two-dimensional simulations at high Reynolds number. Results of the DSGS simulation are obtained in the form of power spectral densities and visualization of flow characteristics. The DSGS model simulation results are compared to the Smagorinsky eddy viscosity model simulation and available experimental data. The DSGS model simulation is found to be in good agreement with spectral data available from experiments in similar bundle arrangements. Coherent eddy structures were observed. Body forces acting on the tubes showed satisfactory characteristics. Integral length and timescales are evaluated using correlation functions that describe the turbulence structure. The applicability of large eddy simulation to complex engineering flow situations has been shown using the DSGS model with applications to steam generator bundles for understanding of flow-induced vibration problems revealing the physical phenomena of the flow.