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Adding new heat transfer closures into MOOSE-SCM

Open luizaldeia opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

Motivation

The MOOSE Subchannel Module (MOOSE-SCM) includes a broad library of heat-transfer closures, but extending this set with additional correlations would expand the range of reactor designs for which MOOSE-SCM can be reliably applied.

Design

A few of the suggested correlations to be implemented include:

  1. The Schad-modified correlation for the Nusselt number (liquid metals)
  2. The Graber and Rieger correlation for the Nusselt number (offers a broader range of P/D, allowing the modeling of a reactor with P/D up to 1.95)

Impact

The proposed correlations would be implemented as additional heat-transfer models within MOOSE-SCM. No changes to existing APIs, input syntax, or default behaviors are expected. The enhancement is backward-compatible and introduces new capabilities only when the user opts into these closures.

luizaldeia avatar Dec 03 '25 19:12 luizaldeia

Nice. Thank you. I have resolved this in #32029

kyriv1980 avatar Dec 03 '25 20:12 kyriv1980