Relation between temperature fluctuation of a heating surface and generation of drypatch caused by a cylindrical spacer in a vertical boiling two-phase upward flow in a narrow annular channel

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 81-90

  Fukano, T ^a   Mori, S ^a   Akamatsu, S ^b   Baba, A ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COOLING; HEATING; THERMAL EFFECTS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0036706553     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(02)00159-0     Document Type: Article

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