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Timothy J. Craft

The University of Manchester

United Kingdom

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

5

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132

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Scholarly Papers (5)

1.

Assessment of Rans Turbulence Model Performance in Tight Lattice Lwr Fuel Subchannels

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Sep 2022
Dean Wilson, Hector Iacovides and Timothy J. Craft
The University of Manchester, The University of Manchester and The University of Manchester
Downloads 54 (1,020,567)

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Rod bundle, RANS modelling, near-wall modelling, nuclear thermal-hydraulics

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Highly Resolved Les and Urans Computations of a Differentially Heated Square Cavity

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Sep 2023
The University of Manchester, The University of Manchester, The University of Manchester and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 32 (1,290,922)

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turbulence, buoyant square cavity, LES, Unsteady RANS, Analytical Wall Function

3.

Performance of low-Reynolds-number URANS closures in the computation of vertical heater vertical cooler natural convection loops

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Oct 2025
The University of Manchester, The University of Manchester, The University of Manchester, The University of Manchester and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 27 (1,359,097)

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Unsteady RANS, Natural Circulation Loops, turbulence, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, conjugate heat transfer

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Numerical Insights into the Transient Behaviour of Single-Phase Natural Circulation Loops for Nuclear Passive Cooling Applications

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Nov 2023
Dean Wilson, Hector Iacovides and Timothy J. Craft
The University of Manchester, The University of Manchester and The University of Manchester
Downloads 15 (1,500,778)

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Unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes, Natural circulation loops, Nuclear thermal-hydraulics, Passive cooling

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Computational Modelling of Heat Convection using High Prandtl Number Fluids

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Jun 2026
Haotian He, Timothy J. Craft and Hector Iacovides
The University of Manchester, The University of Manchester and The University of Manchester
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High Prandtl Number Fluids, Heat Convection, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes, Turbulence Modelling, Turbulence Model Development, Computational Fluid Dynamics