An efficient computation scheme for tracking contaminant concentrations in fluid flows
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instance of: scholarly article
title: An efficient computation scheme for tracking contaminant concentrations in fluid flows
zbMATH Open document ID: 0572.76097
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9991(84)90105-0
author: C. W. Hirt
author: James M. Sicilian
published in: Journal of Computational Physics
publication date: 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: It is often important in engineering applications to predict the concentration of contaminants in a fluid flow. The prediction of the time-dependent behavior of contaminant concentrations in three dimensions is usually expensive, particularly when the arrival time of concentration fronts is important. An efficient numerical solution algorithm for such problems based on the use of discrete fluid particles to represent the contaminants, and a continuum representation of the background fluid is discussed. The containment atmosphere prediction (CAP) code has been developed to apply this scheme to the analysis of hydrogen distribution in nuclear reactor containment buildings under postulated degraded-core accident conditions. CAP is described and comparisons between its predictions and experimental results presented.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76T99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76M99
zbMATH DE Number: 3913981
zbMATH Keywords: discrete fluid particles
zbMATH Keywords: contaminant concentrations
zbMATH Keywords: arrival time of concentration fronts
zbMATH Keywords: continuum representation of the background fluid
zbMATH Keywords: containment atmosphere prediction
zbMATH Keywords: hydrogen distribution in nuclear reactor containment buildings
zbMATH Keywords: degraded-core accident conditions
describes a project that uses: SOLA-VOF
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0021-9991(84)90105-0
OpenAlex ID: W2007988506
cites work: Calculating three-dimensional flows around structures and over rough terrain
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3913981