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Concerning a LOCA and subsequent rewetting and reflooding phenomena<br />

in a nuclear reactor, the transient boiling and two-phase flow under large<br />

Q/dhe and high steam quality are considerably important . In analysing<br />

the phenomena, an accurate knowledge of an annular and annular dispersed<br />

flow is essential.<br />

In an earlier stage of the LOCA and reflooding, the most important<br />

flow regime involved is counter-current annular dispersed flow where<br />

liquid flow rate is positive. Associated with the annular dispersed flow<br />

in the above case, droplet size and entrainment rate have been analyzed.<br />

The mean droplet size and size distribution are important for detailed<br />

mechanistic modeling of annular two-phase flow. A large number of experi-<br />

mental data indicate that the standard Weber number criterion based on the<br />

relative velocity between droplets and gas flow predicts far large drop-<br />

let sizes. Therefore, it was postulated that the majority of the droplets<br />

were generated at the time of entrainment and the size distribution was the<br />

direct reflection of the droplet entrainment mechanism based in roll-wave<br />

shearing off. A detailed model of the droplet size in annular flow was then<br />

developed based on the above assumption. The correlations for the volume<br />

mean diameter as well as the size distrinution were obtained in collaboration<br />

with a large number of experimental data-.= A comparison with experimental<br />

data indicated that indeed the postulated mechanism has been the dominant<br />

factor in determining the droplet size. Furthermore, a large number of data<br />

can be successfully correlated by the present model . These correlations can<br />

supply accurate information on droplet size in annular flow which has not<br />

been available previously.<br />

As for the entrainment rate in annular dispersed flow , the correlations<br />

for entrainment rate covering both entrance region and equilibrium<br />

region have been developed from a simple model in collaboration with d ata.<br />

Results show that the entrainment rate varies considerably in the entrain-<br />

ment development region, however, at a certain distance from an inlet it<br />

attains an equilibrium state where entrainment rate and deposition rate<br />

becomes equal. The result indicates that the equilibrium entrainment rate<br />

is proportional to the Weber number based on the hydraulic diameter of the tube<br />

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