TRANSPORT

PHENOMENA
“Heat Conduction With A Nuclear Heat
Source”
Nuclear Heat Source:

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 Heat Conduction With A Nuclear Heat Source:
Aluminum
Cladding

Sphere of
fissionable
material
T(F) T(C) To
Spherical Nuclear fuel assembly,
showing the temperature distribution R(F)
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within the system R(C)
 Sn = Sno[ 1 + b( r/R(F) )2]
The various contribution of energy balance:
Rate of Heat in by Conduction at r:

=qr(F)‫ ׀‬.4πr2

Rate of heat out by conduction at r+Δr:

=qr(F) ‫׀‬r+ Δr.4π(r+Δr)2

Rate of thermal energy produced by nuclear fission:

=Sn . 4πr2Δr

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 Shell Energy Balance:
{Rate of thermal - {Rate of thermal
energy in} energy out}

+ {Rate of thermal
=0
energy production}

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 Substitution of these terms into the energy
balance:

lim (r2qr(F) ‫׀‬r+ Δr – (r2qr(F) ‫׀‬r = S n r 2

Δr 0
Δr

The differential equation for heat flux in the cladding:

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 Integrating the equations above:

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 Integration of these two equations gives:

Where C1(F) and C1(C) are integration constants; They are

evaluated by boundary conditions:

At r = 0, qr(F) is not infinite

At r = R(F) qr(F) = qr(C)

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 After applying the boundary condition 1 and
solving the expression, we get

C1(F) = 0

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 Putting the values of constant in main equations we get:

These are the heat flux distributions in the fissionable

sphere and in the spherical shell cladding.

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To find out the temperature distribution, we will use
Fourier’s law of heat conduction in the above
equations.
According to the Fourier’s law of heat conduction:

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We now substitute Fourier’ law of heat conduction
in these distributions:

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 Integrating the above equations:

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 The integration constants C2(F) and C2(C) are determined
from the following boundary conditions;

At r = R(F) , T(F) = T(C)

At r = R(C) , T(C) = T0

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After solving the above eq. for boundary
condition, we get:

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 The final expressions for temperature profiles are:

Put r = 0 to find the maximum temperature in the sphere of

fissionable material.

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