Assessment of Look-up tables for the prediction of heat transfer coefficient distribution in rod bundles cooled by supercritical water

Autor: Rashed MD. Sardar, Akhmed M. Baisov
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Vol 56, Iss 12, Pp 5346-5356 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1738-5733
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2024.07.044
Popis: The evaluation of available Look-Up Tables for prediction of heat transfer coefficient distribution in rod bundles cooled by supercritical water with the aim of their further use in computational analyses of various Fuel Assembles of Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactors is made. The comparison between the calculations based on Look-Up Tables with the values from empirical correlations and experimental data for smooth and wire-wrapped rod bundles was presented. The obtained results showed that Look-Up Table of the University of Ottawa, which was created to describe improved and deteriorated heat transfer regimes in round tubes, allows describing available data points with 30 % of the mean square deviation. It is noted that the presence of wire intensifies heat transfer exchange near pseudocritical temperature region but existing versions of Look-Up Tables cannot take into account this effect. Nevertheless, there is potential for further improvement in predicting the heat transfer coefficient using Look-Up Table by introducing additional correction factors.
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