Investigation of film boiling thermal hydraulics under FCI conditions: results of analyses and a numerical study

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 251-272

  Dinh, T N ^a   Dinh, A T ^a   Nourgaliev, R R ^a   Sehgal, B R ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING LIQUIDS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLANTS; FILMS; HEAT FLUX; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUCLEAR FUELS; STEAM; TEMPERATURE;

FILM BOILING; FUEL COOLANT INTERACTIONS; LOCAL HOMOGENEOUS SLIP MODEL; THERMAL HYDRAULICS;

CORE MELTDOWN;

EID: 0032641437     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(98)00276-3     Document Type: Article

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