An Experimental Study of Rod Bundle Dispersed-Flow Film Boiling with High-Pressure Water

1985 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Morris ◽  
Charles B. Mullins ◽  
Graydon L. Yoder
1983 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graydon L. Yoder ◽  
David G. Morris ◽  
Charles B. Mullins ◽  
Larry J. Ott

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Ireland ◽  
E. Rosal ◽  
L. E. Hochreiter ◽  
F. B. Cheung

Abstract A droplet injection system has been developed for use in a rod bundle heat transfer test facility designed specifically for the study of dispersed flow film boiling during reflood transients in a nuclear reactor. Three different injectors having various pitch configurations and hole patterns were tested. The drop field produced by each was characterized using a laser-assisted size measurement technique. Appropriate mean diameter and drop size distributions that closely simulate the drop field encountered in a reactor bundle assembly under reflood conditions was obtained. The drop injection system developed can readily be employed in the rod bundle test facility to investigate the droplet heat transfer in the dispersed flow film boiling regime.


2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Frepoli ◽  
A. J. Ireland ◽  
L. E. Hochreiter ◽  
F. B. Cheung

Abstract The droplet injection experiments to be performed in a 7 × 7 rod bundle heat transfer test facility are being simulated using an advanced thermal hydraulics computer code called COBRA-TF. A current version of the code, which provides a three-dimensional, two-fluid, three-field representation of the two-phase flow, is modified to facilitate the simulation of the droplet field produced by the injection system in the test facility. The liquid phase is split into a continuous liquid field and droplet field where a separate momentum and mass equation is solved for each field, with the effects of spacer grids being properly accounted for. Pre-test analyses using the modified COBRA-TF code have been conducted for different injection conditions. Results indicate that there are specific ranges of conditions that can be simulated within the facility constraints to provide for validation of the dispersed flow film boiling models. The numerical results also show important effects of the spacer grids on the local heat transfer in the dispersed flow film boiling regime.


1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.J. Hynek ◽  
W.M. Rohsenow ◽  
A.E. Bergles

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