Recent progresses on thermal–hydraulics evaluations of accident tolerant fuel cladding materials

M He, J Wang, M Chen - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal–hydraulics (TH) experiments have been on the progress to evaluate boiling heat
transfer characteristics of accident tolerant fuel (ATF) candidates for further supporting the …

Physics-informed machine learning-aided framework for prediction of minimum film boiling temperature

KM Kim, P Hurley, JP Duarte - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
Minimum film boiling temperature (T MFB) is a crucial parameter in post-critical heat flux
(CHF) condition by determining the collapse of stable vapor film on overheated surface …

Simultaneous estimation of fluid temperature and convective heat transfer coefficient by sequential function specification method

P Xiong, Z Qiu, Q Lu, T Lu, J Deng, Y Liu… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
In pressurized water reactor (PWR) with multiple loops, abnormal working conditions occur
when coolant pumps do not work in some loops. In these closed-loop pipelines, thermal …

Enhanced flow boiling heat transfer on chromium coated zircaloy-4 using cold spray technique for accident tolerant fuel (ATF) materials

D Lee, B Elward, P Brooks, R Umretiya, J Rojas… - Applied Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flow boiling heat transfer tests were conducted to evaluate the Critical Heat Flux (CHF) and
Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) of conventional and accident tolerant fuel (ATF) cladding …

[HTML][HTML] Role of sea salt deposition on the advances in pool boiling heat transfer in nuclear reactors

SA Ebrahim, E Pradeep, M Ahmed - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The study of pool boiling performance of seawater and its advancements in the field of
nuclear power safety is given significant importance in the Arabian Gulf (AG) region. The …

Study of the film boiling heat transfer and two-phase flow interface behavior using image processing

Y Jin, K Shirvan - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
In the current study, based on a small-scale quench test facility, the two-phase flow interface
behavior during quench transients is visualized and analyzed utilizing an image processing …

Study on liquid–vapor interface oscillation characteristics and heat transfer of film boiling during quenching of fuel cladding surfaces

P Xiong, T Lu, Y Luo, Q Zhang, H Ren, J Deng… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is very important to understand the heat transfer and flow characteristics of the film boiling
during the quenching of fuel cladding under severe accident conditions. In order to …

A sequential conjugate gradient method to estimate heat flux for nonlinear inverse heat conduction problem

P Xiong, J Deng, T Lu, Q Lu, Y Liu, Y Zhang - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a sequential conjugate gradient method is presented to reconstruct the
undetermined surface heat flux for nonlinear inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP). This …

Intrinsic effects of Cr-layered accident-tolerant fuel cladding surface on reflood heat transfer

D Shin, SJ Kim - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
A transient flow quench experiment was conducted to investigate the reflood heat transfer of
a Cr-layered vertical tube, which is considered to be the most promising candidate for an …

Experimental investigation on the transient film boiling heat transfer during quenching of FeCrAl

Z Wang, M Zhong, J Deng, Y Liu, H Huang… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
As one of the promising accident tolerant fuel (ATF) cladding materials, FeCrAl can
efficiently reduce the hydrogen generation and heat release under accident conditions due …