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turbulent flow regime. For a two-phase flow case, the similarity groups ob-<br />

tained from a perturbation analysis based on the one-dimensional drift-flux<br />

model have been used. The physical significance of the phase change number,<br />

subcooling number, drift-flux number, friction number are discussed and con-<br />

ditions imposed by these groups are evaluated. In the two-phase flow case,<br />

the critical heat flux is one of the most important transients which should<br />

be simulated in a scale model. The above results are applied to the LOFT fa-<br />

cility in case of a natural circulation simulation. Some preliminaryconclu-<br />

sions on the feasibility of the facility have been obtained.<br />

Some of the results of this study on the transient boiling and two-<br />

phase flow have been incorporated into a large scale computor code such as<br />

TRAC which is commonly used to evaluate the safety of a nuclear reactor.<br />

accident. The author believes that this study will make some contribution to<br />

the improvement of such safety analyses of the nuclear reactor accidents.<br />

However, it is needless to say that much more research efforts on<br />

the transient boiling and two-phase flow phenomena should be done in order<br />

to acquire accurate understandings of the themohydraulics of nuclear power<br />

plants under normal and off-normal operational conditions.<br />

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