Investigation on turbulent heat transfer to lead-bismuth eutectic flows in circular tubes for nuclear applications

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 236, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 385-393

  Cheng, Xu ^a   Tak, Nam Il ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EUTECTICS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; LEAD ALLOYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ACCELERATOR DRIVEN SUB-CRITICAL SYSTEM (ADS); CIRCULAR TUBE GEOMETRIES; LEAD-BISMUTH EUTECTIC (LBE); PHYSICAL MODELS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 31944450821     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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