Credit:
A. Obabko, E. Merzari, Argonne National Laboratory;
P. Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory and UIUC; L. Bockmeyer, Texas A&M

This is a volume rendering of scaled temperature (left) and velocity magnitude (right) in Nek5000 validation large-eddy simulation (LES) of Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s (JAEA) PLANDTL experiment.Themodel involves a conjugate heat transfer flow of liquid sodium coolantaround heated4-wire-wrap-pitch37 pins at Reynolds number 100,000.