Nanofluids have opened the doors towards the enhancement of many of today's existing
thermal applications performance. This is because these advanced working fluids exhibit …

Thermal–hydraulics (TH) experiments have been on the progress to evaluate boiling heat
transfer characteristics of accident tolerant fuel (ATF) candidates for further supporting the …

Minimum film boiling temperature (T MFB) is a crucial parameter in post-critical heat flux
(CHF) condition by determining the collapse of stable vapor film on overheated surface …

This work studies the application of artificial neural network (ANN) to predict the minimum
film boiling temperature (T min) for various substrate rods quenched in high-and low …

The paper sequentially substantiates an existence of the two distinct modes of film boiling
during quenching the high-temperature bodies in subcooled liquids. Based on the vast …

It is very important to understand the heat transfer and flow characteristics of the film boiling
during the quenching of fuel cladding under severe accident conditions. In order to …

Accident tolerant fuel deployment has been rapidly accelerating in the US with lead test rods
and assemblies already inserted in commercial reactors. With the current deployment target …

Quenching heat transfer is a representative complex phenomenon in thermal-hydraulic
engineering. Despite the tremendous efforts to precisely predict the quenching behavior …

The minimum film boiling temperature (T min) is one of the primary factors that influence the
efficiency of rewetting of nuclear fuel rods after a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) in a light …

This research investigates the effects of surface modification and surface oxidation on pool
boiling heat transfer performance. An experimental facility was designed and built to perform …