Modeling of bubble coalescence and disintegration in confined upward two-phase flow

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 230, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 3-26

  Sun, Xiaodong ^a   Kim, Seungjin ^a   Ishii, Mamoru ^a   Beus, Stephen G ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BETTIS ATOMIC POWER LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COALESCENCE; COMPACTION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONFINED FLOW; HEAT SINKS; HEAT TRANSFER; SURFACE PHENOMENA; TURBULENCE;

INTERFACIAL TRANSFER; SAFETY ANALYSIS; THERMAL HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 2342599706     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2003.10.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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