Lookup tables for predicting CHF and film-boiling heat transfer: Past, present, and future

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-104

  Groeneveld, D C ^a,b   Leung, L K H ^a   Guo, Y ^a   Vasic, A ^a   El Nakla, M ^b   Peng, S W ^b   Yang, J ^b   Cheng, S C ^b  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical heat flux; Film boiling; Lookup table

Indexed keywords

BOILING LIQUIDS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; TABLE LOOKUP; WATER COOLED REACTORS;

CRITICAL HEAT FLUX; FILM BOILING;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 24944511432     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT152-87     Document Type: Article

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