Supercritical water (SCW) is one of the high-profile fluids between scholars, which has great
potential in the thermal industry. Therefore, it may serve as a promising fluid utilized in …

Turbulent heat transfer is a complex phenomenon, which is ubiquitous in engineering
applications and has challenged turbulence modellers for several decades. In an attempt to …

Liquid lead-bismuth cooled fast reactor is one of the most promising reactor types among the
fourth-generation nuclear energy systems. The flow and heat transfer characteristics of lead …

Abstract Helical tube Once Through Steam Generator (OTSG) could further improve the
compactness of liquid metal cooled reactors. The heat transfer characteristics of liquid metal …

Thermal-hydraulics is recognized as a key safety challenge in the development of liquid
metal cooled reactors. At nominal operating conditions, the Prandtl number of liquid metals …

The flow and thermal field characteristics underlying turbulent convective heat transfer in two
reference configurations, representing a jet exiting a planar slot and a circular tube and …

The investigation of flow and heat transfer of lead–bismuth eutectic (LBE) under rolling
conditions is vital to the application of LBE cooled reactor in offshore engineering. In this …

Liquid metal cooled reactors are envisaged to play an important role in the future of nuclear
energy production because of their possibility to use natural resources efficiently and to …

Abstract The Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger (PCHE) is one of the most attractive options for
heat exchanger in compact facilities due to the high area concentration and superior heat …

Large-scale patterns, which are well-known from the spiral defect chaos (SDC) regime of
thermal convection at Rayleigh numbers. Finally, we demonstrate that these mean flow …