Forced convective critical heat flux (CHF) in a rectangular channel that depended on an inclination angle was investigated. The experiment has been performed with a one side-heated thin rectangular channel under the atmospheric pressure with the inclination angle varying from 10• to 90• and mass flux from 0 to 400 kg/m 2 ·s. The CHF was found to decrease with the inclination angle remarkably at low mass flux. Flooding CHF analysis was carried out based on the result of flow visualization in the channel, and the incorporation of inclination angle into a model was proposed. A comparison of the model prediction with experimental results showed good agreement between the measured and predicted CHF with varying inclination angle. The model was combined with a conventional CHF correlation for evaluation of mass flux, and finally a forced convective CHF correlation for an inclined thin rectangular channel was proposed.
For severe accident assessment in a light water reactor (LWR), heat transfer models in a narrow annular gap between the overheated core debris and the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) are important for evaluating RPV integrity and emergency procedures. Some heat transfer models have been proposed as gap cooling CHF (critical heat flux) but local heat fluxes on the hot surface were not taken into account. Therefore, using the existing data, the authors developed heat transfer models on the average CHF restricted by CCFL (counter-current flow limitation) and local boiling heat fluxes, and showed that the average CHF depended on the steam-water flow pattern in the narrow gap and that the local heat fluxes were similar to the pool boiling curve. We evaluated the validity of heat transfer models by simple calculations for an ALPHA/IDC001 experiment performed by JAERI (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute). Results showed heat fluxes on the crust surface were restricted mainly by its thermal resistance after the crust formation, emissivity on its surface did not have much effect on the heat fluxes, and the calculated vessel temperature during the heat-up process agreed well with the measurements. However, the vessel cooling rate was underestimated mainly due to underestimation of the gap size. The heat fluxes on the vessel inner surface were much higher than the pool film boiling therefore local boiling heat transfer should be studied to improve the heat transfer models.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.