Overview
- Devoted to nuclear thermal hydraulics which is a substantial part of nuclear reactor safety
- Provides knowledge and mathematical tools for adequate description of the process of transferring the fission heat released in materials due to nuclear reactions into its environment
- This third edition includes various updates, extensions and improvements in all book chapters
- Presents several illustrations of the use of the method developed in this monograph for design of modern powerful components of nuclear power plants like steam generators, nuclear reactors, turbine, complex pipe networks with its components, auxiliary devices
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This Volume 5 of the successful book package "Multiphase Flow Dynamics" is devoted to nuclear thermal hydraulics which is a substantial part of nuclear reactor safety. It provides knowledge and mathematical tools for adequate description of the process of transferring the fission heat released in materials due to nuclear reactions into its environment. It step by step introduces into the heat release inside the fuel, temperature fields in the fuels, the "simple" boiling flow in a pipe described using ideas of different complexity like equilibrium, non equilibrium, homogeneity, non homogeneity. Then the "simple" three-fluid boiling flow in a pipe is described by gradually involving the mechanisms like entrainment and deposition, dynamic fragmentation, collisions, coalescence, turbulence. All heat transfer mechanisms are introduced gradually discussing their uncertainty. Different techniques are introduced like boundary layer treatments or integral methods. Comparisons with experimental data at each step demonstrate the success of the different ideas and models. After an introduction of the design of the reactor pressure vessels for pressurized and boiling water reactors the accuracy of the modern methods is demonstrated using large number of experimental data sets for steady and transient flows in heated bundles. Starting with single pipe boiling going through boiling in the rod bundles the analysis of complete vessel including the reactor is finally demonstrated. Then a powerful method for nonlinear stability analysis of flow boiling and condensation is introduced. Models are presented and their accuracies are investigated for describing critical multiphase flow at different level of complexity. Therefore the book presents a complete coverage of the modern Nuclear Thermal Hydrodynamics.
This present third edition includes various updates, extensions, improvements and corrections.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multiphase Flow Dynamics 5
Book Subtitle: Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics
Authors: Nikolay Ivanov Kolev
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15156-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15155-7Published: 14 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37449-9Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15156-4Published: 02 April 2015
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XL, 886
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 438 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Thermodynamics