Investigation on the applicability of turbulent-Prandtl-number models for liquid lead-bismuth eutectic

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 257, Issue , 2013, Pages 128-133

  Chen, Fei ^a,b   Huai, Xiulan ^a   Cai, Jun ^a   Li, Xunfeng ^a   Meng, Ruixue ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NORTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF WATER RESOURCES AND ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR DRIVEN SUBCRITICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS; CONSTANT WALL TEMPERATURE; HEAT TRANSFER CORRELATION; LEAD-BISMUTH EUTECTICS; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SPALLATION TARGETS; TURBULENT PRANDTL NUMBER;

BISMUTH; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EUTECTICS; LIQUIDS; MIXED CONVECTION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

PRANDTL NUMBER;

EID: 84874859685     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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