A thermomechanical finite element tool for Leak-before-Break analysis

DOI10.1002/nme.4656zbMath1352.74356MaRDI QIDQ2952485

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Publication date: 30 December 2016

Published in: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.4656

zbMATH Keywords

two-phase flow; XFEM; thermomechanical; nuclear engineering; critical flow; leak-before-break

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74F10: Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.)

74S05: Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics

74F05: Thermal effects in solid mechanics

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

76Txx: Multiphase and multicomponent flows

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Uses Software

• XFEM

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