Direct Numerical Simulation of high Prandtl number fluids and supercritical carbon dioxide canonical flows using the spectral element method

Understand

The design of advanced nuclear reactors (Gen IV) involves an array of challenging fluid-flow issues that affect safety and performance.

• Currently, these problems are addressed in an ad-hoc manner at varying scales which are time-consuming and expensive.
• The creation of a high-resolution heat transfer numerical database has the potential to help develop to accurate and inexpensively reduced resolution heat transfer models.
• Such models can help address industrial-driven issues associated with the heat transfer behavior of advanced reactors.