Two-phase flow boiling instabilities: A review

C Li, X Fang, Q Dai - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work is to solve or suppress the two-phase flow boiling instability. A
comprehensive review shows the research progress of flow instability types, experimental …

An overview of gravity effects on flow boiling instabilities

Z Ma, X Fang - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Modern flight vehicles have increasing demands for flow boiling to support onboard thermal
management and power generating systems, and many studies on gravity effects on flow …

Study on two-phase flow instability of parallel helical tubes in steam generator of small modular reactors

C Shen, M Liu, Z Xu, K Cheng, L Liu, H Gu - … Communications in Heat and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The flow instability phenomenon within parallel helical tubes is experimentally studied. The
oscillation characteristics of wall temperature are comprehensively discussed. In the …

Frictional pressure drop correlation of steam-water two-phase flow in helically coiled tubes

Y Su, X Li, X Wu - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Helically coiled tubes are utilized as the heat transfer tubes for High-Temperature Gas-
cooled Reactor (HTGR) steam generators due to their compactness, thermal expansion …

Theoretical analysis of the flow stability of HTGR supercritical steam generators using dimensionless numbers

Y Su, X Li, Z Li, X Wu - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGR) have the advantages of inherent
safety and high temperature. Due to the high temperature, adoption of supercritical steam …

[HTML][HTML] A three-region movable-boundary helical coil once-through steam generator model for dynamic simulation and controller design

S Wu, Z Li, P Wang, GH Su, J Wan - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
A simple but accurate mathematical model is crucial for dynamic simulations and controller
design of helical coil once-through steam generator (OTSG). This paper presents a three …

Experimental analysis of temperature and vapor core pressure for an annular heat pipe

D Orea, NK Anand, YA Hassan - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The main contribution of this study is the effects of the operating conditions on the internal
vapor pressure and temperature in an annular screen wick heat pipe, using distilled water …

Two-phase flow instability characteristics of HTGR Once Through Steam Generators

Y Su, X Li, X Wu - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGR) have the advantage of inherent
safety compared with most Gen III reactors. They also have very high temperature, which …

Theoretical analysis of Ledinegg instability and density wave oscillation using dimensionless numbers

Y Su, X Li, X Wu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Two-phase flow instability is influenced by many factors. The reported parameter effects on
instability boundary are incomplete and sometimes conflict. Dimensionless numbers are …

Comparison analysis of density wave oscillation type two-phase flow instability of superheated and saturated boiling tubes

Y Su, X Li, Z Li, X Wu - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Most of previous conclusions about two-phase flow instability come from saturated two-
phase flow boiling tubes (SatTFB). Superheated two-phase flow boiling tubes (SupTFB) can …