Two-phase flow boiling instabilities: A review

C Li, X Fang, Q Dai - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work is to solve or suppress the two-phase flow boiling instability. A
comprehensive review shows the research progress of flow instability types, experimental …

An overview of gravity effects on flow boiling instabilities

Z Ma, X Fang - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Modern flight vehicles have increasing demands for flow boiling to support onboard thermal
management and power generating systems, and many studies on gravity effects on flow …

Simulation of operational conditions of FASSIP-02 natural circulation cooling system experimental loop

AR Antariksawan, S Widodo, M Juarsa… - Jurnal Sains dan …, 2018 - jurnal.batan.go.id
The natural circulation is considered in the design of emergency passive core cooling
system in a nuclear power plant. In that context, in order to investigate the characteristics of …

Experimental investigation of the oscillation characteristics of natural circulation of R134A in a two-phase loop

SZ Wen, LP Huang, ZR Wang, XB Zhang… - … Thermal and Fluid …, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural circulation (NC) loops were widely used in many fields, but still limited in the
instability of the loop. The instability characteristics of NC are not fully understood, such as …

Preliminary investigation of natural circulation stability in FASSIP-01 experimental facility using RELAP5 code

AR Antariksawan, S Widodo, M Juarsa… - AIP Conference …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Natural circulation has an important role in the safety system of a nuclear reactor. It is part of
passive system, which is operated without any external prime mover. The behavior of natural …

Application of different Krylov subspace methods in subcooled flow boiling simulation

H Wei, YT Chen - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a two-phase flow and heat transfer code was developed using the one-
dimensional single-pressure six-equation two-phase flow model and the semi-implicit …

Experimental investigation on the oscillation suppression in a R134a two-phase natural circulation close loop singly connected to an accumulator

SZ Wen, YS Chen, LP Huang, ZH He - Experimental Thermal and Fluid …, 2020 - Elsevier
Having the advantage of durability (simple in structure without mechanical pump), two-
phase natural circulation (TPNC) loops were widely used, but still limited by its inherent …

Evaluation of different Krylov subspace methods for simulation of the water faucet problem

HY Wei, K Briggs, V Quintanilla, YT Chen - Nuclear Science and …, 2021 - Springer
In this study, a one-dimensional two-phase flow four-equation model was developed to
simulate the water faucet problem. The performance of six different Krylov subspace …

Fourier analysis of the RELAP5/3D adaptive time-stepping scheme on a natural circulation loop

FA Braz Filho, GB Ribeiro, AD Caldeira - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The use of natural convection as a passive heat removal mechanism has been widely
explored as a safety system of nuclear power plants. Characteristics like low complexity and …

Brayton cycle numerical modeling using the RELAP5-3D code, version 4.3. 4

EP Longhini, PD de Castro Lobo… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2019 - bjrs.org.br
This work contributes to enable and develop technologies to mount fast microreactors, to
generate heat and electric energy, for the purpose to warm and to supply electrically …