Numerical simulation of flows in tight-lattice fuel bundles

E Merzari, H Ninokata, E Baglietto - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2008 - Elsevier
The flow in tight rod bundles is characterized by long-term, large-scale coherent patterns in
the stream-wise direction. In the present work, the issue of simulating these structures …

Forced, natural and mixed convection benchmark studies for indoor thermal environments

BE Yuce, E Pulat - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, some well-known experimental studies related to forced, natural, and mixed
convections were used for validation of k-ε and k-ω turbulence models. For this purpose …

STRUCTure-based URANS simulations of thermal mixing in T-junctions

J Feng, T Frahi, E Baglietto - Nuclear engineering and design, 2018 - Elsevier
Turbulent mixing of hot and cold streams in T-junction geometries is a critical safety issue for
power plants, as temperature fluctuations have the potential to lead to high cycle thermal …

A methodology based on local resolution of turbulent structures for effective modeling of unsteady flows

G Lenci - 2016 - dspace.mit.edu
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is widely adopted to predict complex flows and to
inform the design of advanced engineering systems. In particular, the industry has seen a …

Demonstration of the STRUCT turbulence model for mesh consistent resolution of unsteady thermal mixing in a T-junction

J Feng, E Baglietto, K Tanimoto, Y Kondo - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
A STRUCTure-based (STRUCT) second generation (2G) URANS turbulence model is
presented in this paper and assessed on the simulation of unsteady turbulent flow, with …

A second-generation URANS model (STRUCT-ε) applied to simplified freight trains

J García, J Muñoz-Paniagua, L Xu… - Journal of Wind …, 2020 - Elsevier
An effective way to increase the volume of cargo transported by freight trains is to increase
their operational speed. The complex flow generated by trains moving through air has …

A second generation URANS approach for application to aerodynamic design and optimization in the automotive industry

L Xu - 2020 - dspace.mit.edu
To address the issues of the existing hybrid models and to better address the industrial need
for a robust, grid consistent, and widely applicable hybrid model, an interesting new …

[HTML][HTML] A generally applicable hybrid unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes closure scaled by turbulent structures

G Lenci, J Feng, E Baglietto - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This work demonstrates a strategy for hybrid turbulence modeling that relies on parameters
identifying flow structures to regulate the model's level of scale resolution, independent of …

A quantitative CFD benchmark for Sodium Fast Reactor fuel assembly modeling

JW Fricano, E Baglietto - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper details a CFD model of a 19-pin wire-wrapped sodium fuel assembly experiment
conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1970s. Model sensitivities were tested …

Extending the applicability of RANS turbulence closures to the simulation of transitional flow around hydrofoils at low Reynolds number

L Xu, E Baglietto, S Brizzolara - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Growing interest in marine autonomous systems such as underwater gliders and
autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) has led to the increase of research on hydrofoil …