Title
Numerically Simulating the Solidification Process of a Melt Casting Metallic Fuel Pin Mold Using FIDAP
Document Type
White Paper
Publication Date
4-2-2003
First page number:
70
Last page number:
70
Abstract
Incorporating volatile actinides, mainly Americium, into the solidification process for a melt casting metallic fuel pin mold has been a serious problem due to Americiums high vapor pressure. Any miscalculation of flow velocity, specific heat and conductivity can easily cause the early solidification before the molten metal fills the whole mold or the failure of full solidification. The objective of this paper is to use the computational fluid dynamic model to simulate and analyze the solidification processing that provides the better parameter estimation for the process.
Keywords
Americium; Metal casting; Metal-base fuel; Nuclear fuel rods
Controlled Subject
Americium; Metal-base fuel; Nuclear fuel rods
Disciplines
Nuclear | Nuclear Engineering | Oil, Gas, and Energy
Language
English
Permissions
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Repository Citation
Tan, T.,
Clarksean, R.,
Chen, Y.,
Hsieh, S.,
Pepper, D.
(2003).
Numerically Simulating the Solidification Process of a Melt Casting Metallic Fuel Pin Mold Using FIDAP.
70-70.
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