| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Why do we care? | |
| Bounding the discussion | |
| The reactor | |
| Materials of construction | |
| pH control agents and coolant additives | |
| Clarifying the definition | |
| The analytical domain | |
| The Corrosion Source | |
| The process | |
| The form | |
| Why a double layered film? | |
| Ion site preference | |
| Kinetics | |
| Modeling the behavior | |
| A closer look at kp | |
| Elemental speciation of kp & kr | |
| The cobalt source | |
| Tramp cobalt in construction material | |
| High cobalt content alloys | |
| A place to start | |
| Framing the vision of the general equation set | |
| Mass balances | |
| Physico-chemical processes | |
| Nuclear processes | |
| Dependant variables | |
| Modeling coolant additives and pH control agents | |
| Building block fluxes for the general equation set | |
| Corrosion growth and release | |
| Particulate deposition and erosion | |
| Water Purity | |
| Practical measurements of kdp and ke | |
| Hydro-thermal crystallization/dissolution | |
| Saturated or equilibrium coolant concentrations | |
| Vanishing dependent variables | |
| Parsing the hydrothermal mass transfer | |
| Modeling of boiling phenomena | |
| Boiling enhanced hydrothermal crystallization | |
| Boiling enhanced Particulate deposition | |
| Hydrothermal Particulate crystallization/dissolution | |
| Saturation enhancement factor (FP) | |
| Hydrothermal Particulate mass transfer coefficient | |
| Building block models for radioactive build-up and decay | |
| Effective thermal neutron production cross sections | |
| Chromite sub-layer equations | |
| Iron & nickel based alloys | |
| Stellite | |
| Zircaloy | |
| Ferrite layer equations | |
| Particulate aqueous phase equations | |
| Discussion | |
| Aqueous soluble phase equations | |
| Iron & nickel based alloy soluble equations | |
| Zircaloy base metal soluble equations | |
| Stellite base metal soluble equations | |
| Discussion | |
| Framing the vision of the media equation set | |
| Reactor coolant purification systems | |
| Modeling media | |
| Filtration building block model | |
| Modeling f and | |
| A simpler approach | |
| Ion-exchange building block model | |
| The media equation set | |
| Media ionic sub-surface equations (ion-exchangers only) | |
| Media surface phase (filtered mass) equations | |
| Media Particulate equations | |
| Media soluble equations | |
| A solution method | |
| Linerizing the equation sets | |
| Finite differencing | |
| General equations for iron in iron/nickel based alloys | |
| Simplified-linearized iron equations | |
| Discussion | |
| How does finite-differencing work? | |
| Defining Y (n) and b (n,m) | |
| Subordinate or Secondary Models and Correlations | |
| FORTRAN or C Algorithms for the Thermodynamic Properties of Steam and Water | |
| Computation of pH (log of the H+ ion concentration) | |
| Single Phase Hydraulic Friction Factor | |
| Defining the Input Architecture for NOC | |
| System Defaults and Program Control Inputs | |
| Finite Difference Mesh | |
| Time Independent Part (or region) Inputs | |
| Operating History Histogram Inputs | |
| The Modeling of Time | |
| Time Dependent Inputs | |
| Time dependent loop connection table inputs | |
| Time dependent Part inputs | |
| Nuclear inputs and power shapes | |
| Program design and suggestions | |
| Program Architecture | |
| Input module | |
| Full input processing | |
| Input pre-scanning | |
| Full input summary edits | |
| Auto-mesh generation | |
| Initial dependent variable boundary conditions | |
| Restart input processing | |
| The restart file structure | |
| The analysis module | |
| Loop 1 ? Operating Steps | |
| Keeping track of time | |
| Loop 2 ? Temporal Power Rows | |
| Loop 3 ? Descending the loop connection table | |
| Loop 4 ? The inner-most loop over mesh cells | |
| Dynamic solution repair | |
| Consider a freezing strategy | |
| Row convergence | |
| A word about convergence | |
| Preserving the mass balance | |
| Partial row rebalance | |
| Oscillatory solutions | |
| A special case mass rebalance | |
| Wrapping up the problem | |
| Summary tables | |
| The output module | |
| Summary | |
| Pre and post processing (the GUI interface) | |
| Post processing functionality | |
| Special solution edits | |
| Simulation graphical trends | |
| Summary | |
| Afterward | |
| References | |
| Glossary | |
| Nomenclature | |
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| Nickel equilibria | |
| Cobalt equilibria | |
| Zinc equilibria | |
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