2025 04 11 to 2025 04 16 - ondrejch/Molten_salt_chemistry GitHub Wiki

Action Items from the Last Meeting

Alex

  • Did not successfully create a mass transfer-coupled Bateman system
  • Read and reread paper describing how to calculate mass transfer coefficient and tried to replicate the process
  • Sherwood number proving a little more elusive than expected
    • Had to learn about dimensionless numbers, employed help from SyTH people
    • Fought against ORNL-4069 units for a bit
  • I think I have reasonable values, need to get second opinion:
    • Re = 912
    • Sc = 82600
    • Sh = 81.2
  • Methodology used:
  • For the Sherwood number, the relation Sh = 9.6E-4(P/D)(Re^1.10)(Sc^0.36) was used from this report
    • But don't these units look wrong?
  • All reference constants were taken from ORNL-4069, Appendix A
  • Didn't have time to work on the EU reactor project this week

Plans for Next Week

Alex

  • Feel confident about calculating dimensionless numbers for simulation
  • Set up Bateman equations (real)
  • Get some feel for why the EU reactor k-eff is so low