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ON THE STEADY-STATE PERFORMANCE OF NATURAL CIRCULATION LOOPS

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Title ON THE STEADY-STATE PERFORMANCE OF NATURAL CIRCULATION LOOPS
 
Creator VIJAYAN, PK
MEHTA, SK
DATE, AW
 
Subject free-convection loop
thermosyphon
 
Description This paper reports a comparison between natural and forced circulation data in a figure-of-eight loop relevant to a pressure tube type heavy water reactor. It is shown that both friction and heat transfer are affected by the presence of buoyancy induced secondary flows under steady-state natural circulation conditions. Several past proposals for correlating the overall hydraulic loss coefficient are reviewed and a generalized correlation is proposed that is non-loop specific. The correlation successfully predicts experimental data from three different loops. The experimental data, however, are generated with seven different geometric configurations of these three loops.
 
Publisher PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
 
Date 2011-08-25T19:07:02Z
2011-12-26T12:57:11Z
2011-12-27T05:47:05Z
2011-08-25T19:07:02Z
2011-12-26T12:57:11Z
2011-12-27T05:47:05Z
1991
 
Type Article
 
Identifier INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, 34(9), 2219-2230
0017-9310
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/11117
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/11117
 
Language en