Studies of the deteriorated turbulent heat transfer regime for the gas-cooled fast reactor decay heat removal system

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lee, Jeong Ik ^a   Hejzlar, Pavel ^a   Kazimi, Mujid S ^a   Saha, Pradip ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration effect; Buoyancy effect; Deteriorated turbulent heat transfer regime; Properties variation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION EFFECT; BUOYANCY EFFECT; DECAY HEAT REMOVAL (DHR); DETERIORATED TURBULENT HEAT TRANSFER REGIME; PROPERTIES VARIATION;

BUOYANCY; FORCED CONVECTION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 33845799572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE14-89826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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