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AbstractTransport processes in dense stellar plasmas which are relevant to the interiors of white dwarfs and neutron stars are reviewed. The emphasis is placed on the accuracy of the numerical results. In this review we report on the electrical conductivity and the thermal conductivity of dense matter. The methods of the calculations are different for the liquid metal phase and the crystalline lattice phase. We will broadly review the current status of the calculations of the transport properties of dense matter, and try to give the best instructions available at the present time to the readers.

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Electronic transport properties of 4f shell elements of liquid metal using hard sphere Yukawa system

10.1063/1.5031747 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

H. P. Patel ◽

Y. A. Sonvane ◽

P. B. Thakor

Keyword(s):

Liquid Metal ◽

Transport Properties ◽

Electronic Transport ◽

Hard Sphere ◽

Shell Elements ◽

Electronic Transport Properties

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Prediction of Local and Integral Turbulent Transport Properties for Liquid-Metal Heat Transfer in Equilateral Triangular Rod Arrays

Journal of Heat Transfer ◽

10.1115/1.3450347 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 97 (2) ◽

pp. 238-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

H. Ramm ◽

K. Johannsen

Keyword(s):

Heat Transfer ◽

Liquid Metal ◽

Transport Properties ◽

Turbulence Model ◽

Transfer Problem ◽

Turbulent Transport ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Theoretical Method ◽

Eddy Diffusivity ◽

Thermal Mixing

A theoretical method based on a phenomenological turbulence model has been applied to evaluate turbulent transport properties for liquid-metal heat transfer in bare equilateral triangular rod bundles. Results obtained for local distributions of thermal eddy diffusivity in the various directions are presented in terms of correlations. From a subsequent solution of the three-dimensional heat transfer problem between two characteristic interior subchannels under conditions characteristic for tracer-type mixing experiments, integral thermal mixing coefficients and thermal length scales have been evaluated. Results demonstrate that the basic concept of subchannel analysis treating molecular conduction and turbulent transport independently of each other tends to underestimate intersubchannel transport. The uncertainties which are involved in principal assumptions of the turbulence-model as well as in the available empirical results are discussed in some detail.

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