Abstract:Difficulties are experienced during the thermal–hydraulic design of a nuclear reactor operating in the transition flow regime and are the result of the inability to accurately predict the heat transfer coefficient (HTC). Experimental values for the HTC in rectangular channels are compared with the calculated by correlations usually used for the design of material testing reactors (MTR). The values predicted by Gnielinski and Kreith correlations at Reynolds numbers below 5000 are not necessarily conservative. T… Show more
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