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Textbooks




Required Texts


Amazon logo Collier, J. G., and J. R. Thome. Convective Boiling and Condensation. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780198562962.

Amazon logo Todreas, N. E. and M. S. Kazimi. Nuclear Systems. Vol. 2. New York, NY: Francis & Taylor, 1990. ISBN: 9781560320791.



Recommended Texts


Amazon logo Whalley, P. B. Boiling, Condensation and Gas-Liquid Flow. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780198562344.

Amazon logo Tong, L. S., and Y. S. Tang. Boiling Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Francis & Taylor, 1997. ISBN: 9781560324850.

Hsu, Y.-Y., and R. W. Graham. Transport Processes in Boiling and Two- Phase Systems. La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society, 1987.

Amazon logo Todreas, N. E., and M. S. Kazimi. Nuclear Systems. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Francis & Taylor, 1990. ISBN: 9781560320791.

Amazon logo Tong, L. S., and J. Weisman. Thermal Analysis of Pressurized Water Reactors. 3rd ed. La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society, 1996. ISBN: 9780894480386.

Lahey, R. T. Jr., and F. J. Moody. The Thermal-Hydraulics of a Boiling Water Nuclear Reactor. 2nd ed. La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society, 1993.



Readings by Session


Readings from the Collier and Thome text are abbreviated "C&T." Readings from the Todreas and Kazimi text are abbreviated "T&K."


LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
1

Course introduction

Two-phase flow definitions

C&T, sections 1.1-1.5
2

Conservation equations

Flow patterns

C&T, sections 2.1-2.2

C&T, section 1.6

3

Flow maps

Bubbly flow

C&T, section 1.6



Handout


Amazon logo Whalley, P. B. "Bubbly and Plug Flow," and "Detailed Phenomena in Annular Flow: Wave Behaviour, Deposition, and Entrainment." Chapters 3 and 9 in Boiling, Condensation and Gas-Liquid Flow. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780198561811.

Amazon logo Lahey, Jr., R. T., and F. J. Moody. The Thermal-Hydraulics of a Boiling Water Nuclear Reactor. 2nd ed. La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society, 1977, pp. 233-241. ISBN: 9780894480102.

4

Slug flow

Annular flow

Flooding and flow reversal

C&T, section 3.5



Handout


Amazon logo Whalley, P. B. "Bubbly and Plug Flow," and "Detailed Phenomena in Annular Flow: Wave Behaviour, Deposition, and Entrainment." Chapters 3 and 9 in Boiling, Condensation and Gas-Liquid Flow. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780198561811.

Amazon logo Lahey, Jr., R. T., and F. J. Moody. The Thermal-Hydraulics of a Boiling Water Nuclear Reactor. 2nd ed. La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society, 1977, pp. 233-241. ISBN: 9780894480102.

5Void fraction modeling

C&T, sections 3.1-3.4



Handout


(PDF)# (Courtesy of the Idaho National Laboratory.)

6Pressure drop modelingC&T, sections 2.3-2.4 and 3.8
7-9Steam separation

Handout


Griffith, Peter. "Steam-water Separation." Multiphase Science and Technology 9 (1997): 381-437.

10Instabilities, Lecture by Dr. Pavel Hejzlar

Handout


Amazon logo Tong, L. S., and Y. S. Tang. "Instability of Two-Phase Flow." Chapter 6 in Boiling Heat Transfer and Two- Phase Flow. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Taylor and Francis, 1997. ISBN: 9781560324850.

Saha, P., M. Ishii, and N. Zuber. "An Experimental Investigation of the Thermally Induced Flow Oscillations in Two-Phase Systems." Journal of Heat Transfer 98 (1976): 616-622.

11Critical flow, Lecture by Dr. Pavel Hejzlar

Handout


Amazon logo Levy, S. "Critical Flow." Chapter 6 in Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1999. ISBN: 9780471329671.

12Bubble nucleationC&T, sections 4.1-4.3
13Pool boilingC&T, section 4.4
14

Mid-term quiz (open book)

All material through Lecture 11

15

Introduction to flow boiling

Onset of nucleate boiling

C&T, sections 4.5 and 5.1-5.3
16Subcooled and saturated flow boilingC&T, sections 5.4-5.5, 6.1-6.2, and 7.1-7.4
17Boiling crisis: Departure from nucleate boiling

C&T, sections 8, 9.1-9.2, and 9.7



Handout


Appendix D in the VIPRE Code User's Manual, Revision 2.

18Boiling crisis: DryoutC&T, sections 8 and 9.7
19Post-boiling-crisis heat transfer, Lecture by Prof. Peter Griffith

C&T, section 7.5



Handout


Groeneveld, D. C., L. K. H. Leung, A. Z. Vasic, Y. J. Guo, and S. C. Cheng. "A Look-up Table for Fully Developed Film-boiling Heat Transfer." Nuclear Engineering and Design 225 (2003): 83-97.

20CondensationC&T, section 10
21The power system thermalhydraulic problemT&K, chapter 1
22Transient analysis (single channel)

T&K, chapter 2, III(A,B), III(A)



Handout


Meyer, John E. "Conservation Equations, Characteristics, and Applications." Final Project Report: Enclosure MIT-FIV-8c. January 31, 1999. (Document internal to MIT.)

23Loop analysisT&K, chapter 3
24

Multiple heated channels connected at plena

T&K, chapter 4, I-V, VIII
25Subchannel analysis, Lecture by Prof. Neil TodreasT&K, chapter 6, I-III, V
26Treatment of uncertainties, Lecture by Prof. Neil TodreasT&K, chapter 8, I-IV
Final exam

 








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