LEADER 11982nam 22006013 450 001 9911045227203321 005 20250206130901.0 010 $a0-323-85607-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31573991 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31573991 035 $a(CKB)33566234100041 035 $a(Exl-AI)31573991 035 $a(OCoLC)1450835269 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933566234100041 100 $a20240802d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aHandbook on thermal hydraulics in water-cooled nuclear reactors$hVolume 1$iFoundations and principles /$fedited by Francesco d'Auria, Yassin A. Hassan 205 $aSecond edition 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cWoodhead Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier,$d[2024]. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (932 pages) 225 1 $aWoodhead Publishing Series in Energy 311 08$a0-323-85606-3 327 $aFront Cover -- Handbook on Thermal Hydraulics in Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactors -- Handbook on Thermal Hydraulics in Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactors: Volume 1: Foundations and Principles -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Contributors for volumes 1, 2 and 3 -- Foreword -- Glossary -- Preface to the first edition of the book -- Preface to the second edition of the book -- Acknowledgments (for the past) and wishes (for the future) -- 1 - Introduction -- Foreword -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Scope and framework -- 1.1.1.1 Origin of nuclear thermal hydraulics -- 1.1.1.2 Single- and two-phase flows -- 1.1.1.3 Prominent scientists, origins, and textbooks -- 1.1.1.4 Journals, conferences, the web, and selected international institutions -- 1.1.1.5 Education and training -- 1.1.1.6 Target nuclear power plant and research reactor types and structures, systems, and components of nuclear installations -- 1.1.1.7 Experiments and instrumentation -- 1.1.1.8 Numerical methods and computer science -- 1.1.1.9 Nuclear safety, licensing process, and design basis accident (moving) boundaries -- 1.1.1.10 Severe accidents -- 1.1.1.11 Containment and reactor coolant system -- 1.1.1.12 Passive systems, reliability, and stability issues -- 1.1.1.13 Accident phenomenology -- 1.1.1.14 Role of startup and shutdown phenomena -- 1.1.1.15 Accident management and its procedures -- 1.1.1.16 Generation IV and small modular reactor thermal hydraulics -- 1.1.1.17 Connections to neutron physics, probabilistic safety assessment, radioprotection, chemistry, mechanics, nuclear fuel, and e ... -- 1.1.1.18 Summary of scope and framework of the textbook -- 1.1.2 Objectives, innovations, and target audience -- 1.1.2.1 Reformulation of textbook objective -- 1.1.2.2 To whom this book is addressed -- 1.1.3 Structure and content -- 1.1.3.1 Chapter 1: Introduction. 327 $a1.1.3.2 Chapter 2: Historical remarks -- 1.1.3.3 Chapter 3: Definitions -- 1.1.3.4 Chapter 4: Needs -- 1.1.3.5 Chapter 5: Balance equations -- 1.1.3.6 Chapter 6: Phenomena -- 1.1.3.7 Chapter 7: Heat transfer -- 1.1.3.8 Chapter 8: Pressure drops -- 1.1.3.9 Chapter 9: Constitutive equations -- 1.1.3.10 Chapter 10: Special models -- 1.1.3.11 Chapter 11: System thermal-hydraulic codes -- 1.1.3.12 Chapter 12: Computational fluid dynamics codes -- 1.1.3.13 Chapter 13: Verification, validation, scaling, and uncertainty -- 1.1.3.14 Chapter 14: Best estimate plus uncertainty approach -- 1.1.3.15 Chapter 15: Design basis accident/condition calculations -- 1.1.3.16 Chapter 16: Thermal hydraulics of nuclear power plant accident occurrences -- 1.1.3.17 Chapter 17: Instrumentation and (basic) experiments -- 1.1.3.18 Chapter 18: Subchannel thermal hydraulics -- 1.1.3.19 Chapter 19: Containment thermal hydraulics -- 1.1.3.20 Chapter 20: Numerics in nuclear thermal hydraulics -- 1.1.3.21 Chapter 21: Scaling insights -- 1.1.3.22 Chapter 22: New perspectives for verification and validation -- 1.1.3.23 Chapter 23: Thermal-hydraulic design of water-cooled nuclear reactors -- 1.1.3.24 Chapter 24: Controversial issues and perspectives -- 1.1.3.25 Chapter interconnections -- Glossary -- Exercises and questions -- Acknowledgments -- 2 - A historical perspective of nuclear thermal hydraulics -- Foreword -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Key actors and stakeholders in nuclear thermal hydraulics -- 2.1.2 Objective -- 2.2 System thermal hydraulics history and trends -- 2.2.1 Role of nuclear thermal hydraulics in nuclear reactor safety -- 2.2.1.1 Roles of probabilistic and deterministic safety assessment -- 2.2.1.2 Role of nuclear thermal hydraulics -- 2.2.2 Definitions -- 2.2.3 History -- 2.2.3.1 Regulatory history in the United States -- 2.2.3.2 Before 1960 -- 2.2.3.3 During 1960-70. 327 $a2.2.3.4 During 1970-80 -- 2.2.3.5 During 1980-90 -- 2.2.3.6 During 1990-2000 -- 2.2.3.7 During 2000-10 -- 2.2.3.8 During 2010-20 -- 2.2.3.9 Historical list of topics -- 2.2.3.10 Summary history of nuclear thermal hydraulics -- 2.2.4 An interpretation of current trends -- 2.3 Perspectives for system thermal hydraulics -- 2.3.1 "Local form loss" coefficients (also reported as "K-factors") -- 2.3.2 Multidimensional heat transfer coefficient surface -- 2.3.3 Energy and entropy balance following reactor coolant system blowdown and containment pressurization -- 2.3.4 Precision targets -- 2.3.5 Applying computational fluid dynamics-like approaches to nuclear power plant design and nuclear reactor safety technologies -- 2.3.6 Thermal hydraulics of passive systems -- 2.3.7 Scaling issue and experiments -- 2.3.8 Verification and validation of system thermal hydraulics codes -- 2.3.9 Uncertainty analysis -- 2.3.10 Coupling system thermal hydraulics -- 2.3.11 Modeling and structuring of computational tools -- 2.3.12 Licensing needs -- 2.3.13 Probabilistic safety assessment and system thermal hydraulics -- 2.3.14 Severe accidents and system thermal hydraulics -- 2.3.15 User effects and training -- 2.3.16 Best estimate plus uncertainty approach -- 2.3.17 Summary remarks -- 2.4 Conclusions -- Exercises and questions -- Acknowledgments -- 3 - Parameters and concepts in nuclear thermal hydraulics -- Foreword -- 3.1 General remarks -- 3.1.1 General remarks on parameters and concepts -- 3.1.2 Importance of two-phase flow -- 3.1.3 Multiscale and multiphysics -- 3.1.4 Turbulence and two-phase flow -- 3.1.5 Empirical database and instrumentation -- 3.2 Concepts involved in two-phase flow development -- 3.2.1 General aspects -- 3.2.2 Parameters and concepts -- 3.2.2.1 Void fraction/quality -- Interfacial area/interfacial area concentration -- 3.2.2.2 Mass velocity. 327 $a3.2.2.3 Equilibrium/subcooling/superheating -- 3.2.2.4 Pressure drop -- 3.2.2.5 Friction -- 3.2.2.6 Vaporization/evaporation/boiling -- 3.2.2.7 Condensation -- 3.2.2.8 Phase separation/mixture levels -- 3.2.2.9 Parameters of balance equations -- 3.2.2.10 Flow-regime definition -- 3.3 Concepts involved in heat transfer developments -- 3.3.1 General aspects -- 3.3.1.1 Importance of heat transfer developments -- 3.3.1.2 Scope -- 3.3.2 Parameters and concepts -- 3.3.2.1 Related to power generation -- 3.3.2.2 Related to heat conduction -- 3.3.2.3 Related to heat convection-general aspects -- 3.3.2.4 Related to heat convection-pre-critical heat flux convection modes -- 3.3.2.5 Related to heat convection-critical heat flux/boiling crisis/post-critical heat flux convection modes -- 3.3.2.6 Related to heat radiation -- 3.4 Concepts involved in target phenomena -- 3.4.1 General aspects -- 3.4.2 Selected phenomena -- 3.4.2.1 Natural circulation -- 3.4.2.2 Critical and choked flows -- 3.4.2.3 Blowdown/reflood/rewet -- 3.4.2.4 Reflux condenser mode -- 3.4.2.5 Loop seal clearing -- 3.4.2.6 Steam binding -- 3.4.2.7 Boron dilution accidents -- 3.4.2.8 Boron dilution/deboration -- 3.4.2.9 Countercurrent flow limitation -- 3.5 Analytical tools -- 3.5.1 General aspects -- 3.5.2 Models and approximations -- 3.5.2.1 Homogeneous model -- 3.5.2.2 Separated flow model -- 3.5.2.3 Drift-flux model -- 3.5.2.4 Lumped parameter models -- 3.5.2.5 One-dimensional/three-dimensional -- 3.5.2.6 Two-fluid model -- 3.5.3 Concepts related to system codes -- 3.5.3.1 General aspects -- 3.5.3.2 Closure laws or constitutive equations -- 3.5.3.3 Heat transfer correlations/lookup tables -- 3.5.3.4 Special models -- 3.5.3.5 Special components -- 3.5.3.6 Nodalization/nodalization diagram -- 3.5.3.7 User effect/good practices -- 3.5.4 Additional concepts involved in analytical thermal hydraulics. 327 $a3.5.4.1 Hydraulic diameter/Reynolds and Froude numbers -- 3.5.4.2 Prandtl and Nüsselt numbers -- 3.5.4.3 Nuclear factors -- 3.5.4.4 Engineering factors -- 3.6 Verification and validation -- 3.6.1 Definitions -- 3.6.2 Concepts involved in experimental thermal hydraulics -- 3.6.2.1 Separate effects tests -- 3.6.2.2 Integral effects tests/integral test facilities -- 3.6.2.3 Analytical support to experimental thermal hydraulics -- 3.6.2.4 Databases of experimental thermal hydraulics -- 3.6.2.5 International standard problems -- 3.6.3 Concepts involved with scaling -- 3.6.3.1 Scaling/scaling issue/addressing the scaling issue -- 3.6.3.2 Power-to-volume scaling -- 3.6.3.3 Hierarchical two-tiered scaling -- 3.6.3.4 Ishii three-level scaling -- 3.6.3.5 Fractional scaling analysis -- 3.6.3.6 Scaling distortion -- 3.6.3.7 Counterpart tests/similar/special counterparts -- 3.6.3.8 Using system codes in scaling analysis -- 3.6.3.9 Kv-scaled calculations -- 3.7 Concepts connected to design and licensing bases -- 3.7.1 Structures, systems, and components -- 3.7.2 Acceptance criteria/design criteria -- 3.7.3 Design basis -- 3.7.4 Licensing basis -- 3.7.5 Quality attributes/availability/reliability -- 3.7.6 Design basis accidents -- 3.7.7 Design basis accident phenomenology -- 3.7.8 Beyond design basis accidents/severe accidents -- 3.8 General safety concepts -- 3.8.1 Safety objectives/safety culture -- 3.8.2 Accident management/emergency operating procedures/severe accident management guidelines -- 3.8.3 Heat extraction safety relevance -- 3.8.4 Energy sources -- 3.8.5 Damage -- 3.8.6 Safety functions -- 3.8.7 Defense in depth -- 3.8.8 Defense-in-depth levels -- 3.8.9 Safety barriers -- 3.8.10 Safety systems/safety-related systems -- 3.8.11 Inherent safety/passive safety/active safety -- 3.8.12 International institutions. 327 $a3.9 Concepts related to deterministic safety assessment. 330 $aThis handbook provides an in-depth analysis of thermal hydraulics in water-cooled nuclear reactors, addressing foundational principles and practical applications. 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