Experimental investigation of the convective heat transfer coefficients at different angular orientations inside the void in a cold flow pebble bed reactor using a non …

M Alshammari, A Alalou, S Aldawood… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study focuses on investigating the effect of the surface location of the pebble inside the
bed, by varying the angular orientation of the heat transfer pebble probe and the velocity of …

An integral CFD approach for the thermal simulation of the PBMR Reactor Unit

JJJ van Rensburg, M Kleingeld - Nuclear engineering and design, 2011 - Elsevier
A CFD method was developed to conduct integral thermal reactor analysis for the complete
Reactor Unit of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd (PBMR). The requirement was …

Investigating leakage and bypass flows in an HTR using a CFD methodology

JJJ van Rensburg, M Kleingeld - Nuclear engineering and design, 2011 - Elsevier
An area that has been identified as significantly important in the development of a high
temperature reactor (HTR) is the prediction of leakage and bypass flows. It is therefore …

[PDF][PDF] Computational Analysis of Fluid Flow in Pebble Bed Modular Reactor

A Gandhir - 2012 - core.ac.uk
High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) is a Generation IV reactor under
consideration by Department of Energy and in the nuclear industry. There are two categories …

Computational Analysis of Fluid Flow in Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Using Different Turbulence Models

A Gandhir, Y Hassan - Fluids Engineering Division …, 2010 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A steady state computational study was done to obtain the pressure drop estimation in
different packed bed geometries, and describe the fluid flow characteristics for such complex …