Heat and mass transfer calculations in heavy liquid metal loops under forced convection flow conditions

Modeling of oxidation of structural materials in LBE systems

“…Calculations were done for e.g. the CORRIDA loop, which is operated with LBE as a coolant [12][13][14]25]. The main characteristics of this loop are described in Ref.…”

“…Approximating the velocity profile in the cross section of the coolant channel by the mean velocity of the fluid u fl (the so-called flow velocity) one can derive simple differential equations for the mean values of the solute concentrations (see Refs. [12][13][14]). In the meantime we have also included in these differential equations the effect of (oxide) particles in the liquid metal.…”

“…[13,16]), we have only to replace the iron diffusion coefficient in LBE by the respective diffusion coefficient for oxygen. For this we have taken the correlation for the oxygen diffusion coefficient in LBE given in Ref.…”

“…In two previous papers [12,13] information on a recently developed computer code (MATLIM) for the calculation of iron mass transfer in a liquid metal loop was given. The code is meant to deal with multi-modular liquid metal systems, e.g.…”

Calculation of dissolution/deposition rates in flowing eutectic Pb–17Li with the MATLIM code

“…The mass flux of the solute i from the channel wall into the bulk of the fluid is calculated in MATLIM [1,2] with the help of the following equation:…”