The effect of the radiative heat transfer on subcooled film boiling
Abstract
A Monte-Carlo model for the radiative heat transport was constructed to simulate the absorption of radiative heat in various parts of a multiphase medium of different configurations. The results obtained from the simulations were used to construct a profile which could be used to calculate the intensity of radiative heat in a given system. Together with the data on the absorption coefficients of liquid water and steam, the obtained profile was used to evaluate the volumetric heat source due to absorption of radiative heat in the medium. This volumetric heat source was applied in the boundary layer equations for subcooled film boiling. With the results obtained by solving the boundary layer equations for subcooled film boiling over a heating planar surface and over a heating spherical surface, the correlations describing the fraction of radiative heat absorbed in the liquid boundary layer for subcooled film boiling were constructed. The mixing phase calculation of the fuel-coolant interaction (FCI) by the computer code TEXAS was improved with the obtained correlations to account for the effect of radiative heat transfer. This verified that part of the radiative heat lost from the system was due to the small absorption coefficient of the steam and the absorption of radiative heat at the wall of the vessel. Because liquid water has a much larger absorption coefficient, more radiative heat is absorbed in water which then results in a lower temperature for steam and a higher temperature for water compared to that calculated without the effect of the radiative heat.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1997
- Bibcode:
- 1997PhDT........97N