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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS<br />

The thermohydraulic characteristics of transient boiling and two-<br />

phase flow have been studied experimantally and analytically. The main<br />

objectives of the study are to provide an accurate knowledge for the various<br />

thermohydraulic phenomena encountered under the accidental conditions of a<br />

nuclear reactor.<br />

In relation to the reactivity accident of a nuclear reactor, the<br />

transient boiling phenomena under rapid power increase have been studied<br />

experimentally. In this case, transient boiling and two-phase flow phe-<br />

nomena under small 2/dhe and low steam quality are particularly important<br />

and the boiling phenomena are considered to be localized. Experiments<br />

were conducted by exponentially increasing heat input to a platinum wire<br />

in water flowing vertically upward in a round tube, under mean water velocity<br />

from 1.35 to 4.04 m/s, inlet subcooling from 0 to 70 K, system pressure<br />

from 0.143 to 1.503 MPa, exponential period from 5 ms to 10 s, heater dia-<br />

meter from 0.8 to 1.5 mm and heater length from 3.93 to 10.04 cm. In<br />

most cases, the transient boiling curve after temperature overshoot coincided<br />

with the steady state boiling curve and/or its extrapolation. In these<br />

cases, the transient maximum heat flux intreased with increasing velocity,<br />

subcooling and pressure, and with decreasing period and heater diameter,<br />

independently of heater length. The difference between the transient<br />

maximum heat flux and the steady state maximum heat flux was satisfactori-<br />

ly correlated by the exponential period.<br />

Incidental to the transient boiling phenomena, the transient non-<br />

boiling heat transfer has been analysed. Based on integral method (boundary<br />

layer approximation), transient non-boiling heat transfer coefficients<br />

are obtained for a flat plate. The approximate but simple and analytic<br />

correlations obtained in this analysis cover various flow regimes (laminar,<br />

turbulent)and awide range of Prandtl number of a fluid. These transient<br />

heat transfer coefficients attain the asymptotic values. The ratio bet-<br />

ween the asymptotic heat transfer coefficient and the steady state one is<br />

correlated in terms of dimensionless parameter including a heat flux increa-<br />

sing rate.<br />

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