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Flame Acceleration and Deflagration to Detonation Transition in Nuclear Safety

State-of-the-Art Report by a Group of Experts
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
NEA/CSNI/R(2000)7
August 2000

  • Front Cover and first two pages (PDF)
  • List of Authors(PDF)
  • Table of Contents(PDF)
  • Foreword (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • 1 - Introduction(PDF)
  • 2 - Processes of Flame Acceleration and DDT(PDF)
  • 3 - Criteria for Flame Acceleration and DDT Limits(PDF)
  • 4 - Detailed Modeling of FA and DDT(PDF)
  • 5 - Experiments and Model Validation(PDF)
  • 6 - Applications to Reactor Containment Analysis(PDF)
  • 7 - Summary and Issues(PDF)

    Appendices:
  • A - Laminar and Turbulent Flame Propagation in Hydrogen-Air-Steam Mixtures(PDF)
  • B - LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLAME PROPAGATION IN HYDROGEN-AIR-CARBON DIOXIDE MIXTURES AND DETONABILITY LIMITS OF HYDROGEN-CONTAINING MIXTURES(PDF)
  • C - THE TYPICAL REFLECTORS AND CRITICAL CONDITIONS OF DIFFERENT EXPLOSIONPHENOMENA NEAR NON-FLAT REFLECTING SURFACES(PDF)
  • D - DETONATION CELL SIZE DATA(PDF)
  • E - DDT EXPERIMENTS IN SHOCK TUBE AND OBSTACLE ARRAY GEOMETRY(PDF)
  • F - AGGREGATION RULES FO R THE DETERMINATION OF CHARACTERISTIC CONTAIMENT SIZE IN A LUMPED-PARAMETER APPROACH(PDF)

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency provides an official version of this report as a single PDF file.