View factors between APT target components [electronic resource].

Published: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1998.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description: 9 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators: Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Summary

In a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) in the accelerator production of tritium (APT) target/blanket, radiation heat transfer determines the temperature of the target components. Radiation heat-transfer analysis can only proceed if accurate component-to-component view factors are available. The authors describe and demonstrate the numerical method used to compute the view factors (also called angle factors, configuration factors, and shape factors) between complicated objects. The method is verified on simple objects that have analytic solutions, and then it is used to predict the view factors between the target components of the accelerator production of tritium target/blanket. The method is practical, easy to apply, and can accommodate difficult levels of realism.

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E 1.99:la-ur--98-3017
E 1.99: conf-980921--
conf-980921--
la-ur--98-3017

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Published through SciTech Connect.
07/01/1998.
"la-ur--98-3017"
" conf-980921--"
"DE99001844"
Nuclear applications of accelerator technology, Gatlinburg, TN (United States), 20-23 Sep 1998.
Kidman, R.B.

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W-7405-ENG-36

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