Supercritical water flow in heated wire wrapped rod bundle channels: A review

G Kumar, RK Singh - Progress in Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the heat transfer features of supercritical water is one of the most critical
issues in the development of Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactors (SCWRs). This review …

Heat transfer and pseudo phase transition for low-Reynolds, mixed-convection channel flow in the supercritical thermodynamic regime

R Barney, R Nourgaliev, R McCallen… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fluids at supercritical thermodynamic conditions are inherently complex due to the large
variations in thermodynamic and transport properties. Multiple recent numerical and …

Explore the potential advantages of replacing UO2 with different thorium-based fuels in US SCLWR

N Alnassar, MA Al-Aqeel, S Alanazi, M Algarawi… - … Engineering and Design, 2025 - Elsevier
This work searches for enhancing the efficiency of the supercritical light water reactor
SCLWR by introducing different fuels based on thorium as an alternative fuel to conventional …

Numerical investigation on heat transfer of supercritical fluid in a vertical 7-rod bundle

S Zhang, H Gu, Z Xiong, S Gong - The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermal–hydraulic behaviors in fuel assemblies of supercritical water-cooled reactor
(SCWR) have been investigated worldwide since the SCWR was selected as a candidate of …

[HTML][HTML] Heat transfer deterioration mechanism for water at supercritical pressure

SED El-Morshedy, SMA Ibrahim, A Alyan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heat transfer deterioration (HTD) phenomena in supercritical water is one of the most
thermal hydraulic critical issues for supercritical reactors. The onset of heat transfer …

Numerical investigation of supercritical water-cooled nuclear reactor in horizontal rod bundles

Z Shang, S Lo - Nuclear engineering and design, 2010 - Elsevier
The commercial CFD code STAR-CD v4. 02 is used as a numerical simulation tool for flows
in the supercritical water-cooled nuclear reactor (SCWR). The basic heat transfer element in …

CFD-Simulationen turbulenter konvektiver Strömungen bei überkritischen Drücken

C Kunik - 2012 - publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu
Fluide bei Drücken um den thermodynamisch kritischen Punkt unterliegen starken
Änderungen der Stoffeigenschaften. Diese interagieren mit der Turbulenzproduktion in …

Large eddy simulation study on forced convection heat transfer to water at supercritical pressure in a trapezoid annulus

MM Amin, Y Duan, S He - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
It is now well known that heat transfer to fluid at supercritical pressure in a confined channel
shows complex behaviors. This is due to the strong variations of the thermal–physical …

CFD analysis of 2x2 rod bundles at supercritical flow condition

G Kumar, RK Singh - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Supercritical Water Reactors (SCWRs) are in consideration of many countries as it improves
the thermal efficiency of the nuclear reactors as comparison to which are in regular use. The …

[图书][B] Dynamic Model Construction and Control System Design for Canadian Supercritical Water-cooled Reactors

P Sun - 2012 - search.proquest.com
The dynamic characteristics of Canadian Supercritical Water-cooled Reactor (SCWR) are
significantly different from those of CANDU reactors due to the supercritical water coolant …