Critical flow data review and analysis
Abstract
The Marviken critical flow data at large scale and the first to test nozzle sizes up to 0.5m. This report presents a survey of two-phase critical flow tests before Marviken and a summary of the results and parametric trends in the Marviken data. It also compares the Marviken blowdowns to predictions by several existing two-phase critical flow models. Conclusions of the study are that the large scale Marviken data behaves very much like smaller scale two-phase critical flow data and it can be predicted with existing critical flow models if non-equilibrium effects are properly treated.
- Publication:
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Final Report Levy (Salomon
- Pub Date:
- January 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982lsi..rept.....A
- Keywords:
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- Cooling Systems;
- Critical Flow;
- Flow Distribution;
- Flow Velocity;
- Two Phase Flow;
- Heavy Water Reactors;
- Nozzle Flow;
- Nozzle Geometry;
- Predictions;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer