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Involute Working Group – Validation of CFD Turbulence Models for Steady-State Safety Analysis of Corner Geometry

Worldwide, three research reactors have fuel plates curved as a circle-involute (a spiral generated around a circle): Oak Ridge National Laboratory High Flux Isotope Reactor located in Tennessee, U.S.A. [1], Institut Laue-Langevin High Flux Reactor located in Grenoble, France [2], and Technical University of Munich Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz located in Garching, Germany [3]. All three reactors are currently using highly enriched uranium ( 235 U/U ≥ 20 wt%) as fuel, and all three are actively engaged in activities to convert to low-enriched uranium ( 235 U/U < 20 wt%) fuel.

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS↗

An Ally in Your Corner: Benefits of Using Owner's Representatives

This short guide provides prospective ESPC customers with key considerations for retaining an owner's representative ("owner’s rep"), specifically regarding recommended areas of competency and qualifications. It also provides a summary of resources to help with finding or soliciting owner's rep services. This information may also be valuable for ESPC program administrators considering how to promote the use of owner’s reps for projects in their state.

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATI↗

Cutting Corners: Curvilinear-Surface-Based Gravity Models for Asteroids and Comets

We report that asteroids and comets are often highly irregular in shape and can contain large density inhomogenities. For such bodies, the simple point-mass gravity model does not capture the dynamics of the environment and this has driven a need for higher fidelity alternatives. A number of approaches have been developed with one of the most popular being the analytic polyhedral model. The analytic polyhedral model approximates the irregular shaped body as a polyhedron, typically consisting of triangular facets, with some assumed internal density distribution. Several analytic formulations have been derived for the gravitational fields of a constant-density polyhedron. A thorough history of the model is provided in Ref. [6] as well as a comparison of the implementations of Refs. [2–4]. The three versions provide near identical accuracy with the implementation of Werner requiring the fewest transcendental function evaluations suggesting its superior efficiency. Implementations with linear density contrasts and arbitrary polynomial density contrasts have also been developed.

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS↗