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ABSTRACT<br />

The transient boiling and two-phase flow phenomena are quite impor-<br />

tant in evaluating thermohydraulic aspects of nuclear reactor<br />

safety. In this study, some problems on these phenomena have been investigated<br />

both experimentally and analytically. The main objectives of this study<br />

are to provide the basic knowledge of transient boiling and two-phase<br />

flow necessary to the reactor safety analyses. The problems investigated<br />

here cover a wide range of operational conditions; from slow to fast tran-<br />

sient,from low to high steam quality, and from local to overall character-<br />

istic of boiling and two-phase flow. The problems concern various phases<br />

of nuclear reactor accidents such as reactivity accident, large<br />

break LOCA (loss of coolant accident) and small break LOCA. The results<br />

obtained here will be utilized in analysing these accidents numerically<br />

coupled with a large scale computor code. Some of the results will also<br />

contribute to designing integrated facilities which simulate a prototype<br />

reactor (LOFT, Semiscale, etc.).<br />

In a reactivity initiated accident where excessive reactivity is<br />

inserted into a nuclear reactor, the reactor power increases exponentially<br />

with time. The heat transfer processes under this circumstance are un-<br />

steady ones. They include transient boiling and non-boiling heat transfer<br />

under forced convective conditions. These subjects have been studied<br />

in Chapter I and IC.<br />

In Chapter I, described are the experimental works that have been carried out<br />

on transient forced convective boiling phenomena using thin platinum wires located<br />

iii.

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