does anyone work on thermal hydraulics? i'm currently doing studies based on both RELAP5 and TRACE codes and i would appreciate if we can share our experiences
drsenbei
Apr1-08, 04:40 AM
does anybody use any thermal-hydraulic computer code?
Astronuc
Apr1-08, 07:15 AM
I work with thermal hydraulics indirectly since T/H forms the thermal boundary conditions for some of my work.
RELAP is one code used in safety and licensing analysis. Many utilities use RETRAN (and EPRI sponsored code) and VIPRE, and over the last decade or so, the industry has been increasing the use computational fluid dynamics with codes like FLUENT, STAR-CD and CFX.
In addition to T/H, turbulence and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) are being studied in much greater detail.