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Departure from nucleate boiling in annular flow channels calculated by the Weisman physically-based DNB (departure from nucleate boiling) correlation

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OSTI ID:7242919
Departure from nucleate boiling (DNB) correlations have historically been empirical relationships used to interpolate and smooth measured data. The correlations generally used a number of fitted parameters and had limited reliability for extrapolation. In this paper, a phenomenological DNB correlation for the forced convection, subcooled, and low-quality region is used to correlate subchannel DNB measurements for tube and annuli to improve the understanding of the trends in the DNB phenomena and to reduce the effect of individual outlying measurements. Other advantages of the phenomenological method, besides reducing the number of fitted parameters to one, were to reduce the standard deviation of measured data about the DNB correlation prediction and to have a basis for filling in gaps in the previously measured data. By this approach, the DNB correlation has served to improve the implementation of DNB measurements for their intended purpose.
Research Organization:
Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-87RL10930
OSTI ID:
7242919
Report Number(s):
WHC-SA-0159-FP; CONF-880724-18; ON: DE88009196
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English