COUPLED THERMAL HYDRAULIC AND MECHANICAL ANALYSES TO EVALUATE SWELLING CHARACTERISTICS

Coupled chemical-hydraulic-mechanical behaviour of bentonites

The coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical behaviour of a large-scale in situ heating experiment

The thermo-hydraulic-mechanical behaviour of a large in situ heating test, the Buffer/Container Experiment (BCE), carried out at Atomic Energy of Canada’s underground research laboratory, is considered. The work can be seen as an extension of the authors’ previous research, investigating the behaviour of a large-scale test, the socalled ‘isothermal test’, to now include heating effects. Suggest...

sensitivity of soil coupled heat and mass transfer governing equations to hydraulic and thermal conductivities

a pressure-based coupled heat and mass transfer model was used to simulate temperature and soil suction in a drying process within a clay soil column. closed form functions were used for all parameters needed in the governing equations. model predictions were compared with experimental data using the mean relative percentage deviation method. thermocouples and mini-gypsum blocks were used t...

Turbulence Modeling Issues in Ads Thermal and Hydraulic Analyses

Accelerator Driven nuclear reactor Systems (ADS) have in several respects a prototypical character of the flow and cooling conditions combined with narrow operating conditions due to the materials engaged. E.g. the high local thermal load in the liquid metal cooled spallation target requires a very careful analysis by experimental and numerical means. Some of the main goals of the numerical ana...

evaluate and develop new relationships to estimate submerged hydraulic jump characteristics

in this research, in order to develop new relationships with reasonable accuracy for estimation of the ‎submerged hydraulic jump characteristics, a study has been conducted experimentally. experiments have ‎been done in a rectangular channel with a length of 9 m, a width of 0.5 m and a depth of 0.45 m. froude ‎numbers in these tests range from 3.5 to 11.5 and between submergence ratios of 0.1 t...