It is of great interest to establish a method for analyzing the transient thermal contact problem of fuel and cladding with use made of the Finite Element Method. Such a method is presented, which deals with transient temperature distributions in fuel and cladding assumed to be in contact with each other. The general matrix equation is composed of matrix equations for fuel and cladding, the two matrix equations being then coupled by the boundary conditions at the interface.
On the one hand, dynamic operation of the University of Tokyo Reactor [YAYOI] has been successfully performed as a preliminary step to pulsed operation. Measurements were made of the transient temperature on the cladding surface. Some of measured results were analyzed by means of the Finite Element Method, as a result of which an insight was gained on the transient temperature distribution in the fuel and cladding produced during the dynamic operation of [YAYOI]. The information thus obtained should serve usefully in the safety analysis of the dynamic operation in respect of cladding integrity.
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