Sabharwall, P: Fluid Axial Conduction Effect

Stability analysis was performed for Secure Transportable Autonomous Reactor - Liquid Metal (STAR-LM) fast reactor which included the effects of axial thermal conduction through lead bismuth eutectic (LBE) along its direction of flow. The results suggested that fluid axial heat conduction in natural circulation loop should be considered only when the modified Peclet number is in the order of one or below, which is significantly smaller than the practical value (100,000 in the specified loop) of liquid metal natural circulation systems. Therefor ...