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Convective Boiling

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An understanding of convective boiling flow depends on successful methods for analyzing two-phase flows first developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Two-phase flow is a very complex problem. Its complexity stems from the coexistence of steam and water in flows in a pot of boiling water, as occurs in a pressurized water reactor during an accident involving a loss of coolant. Other examples of two-phase flow, human made or natural, are bubbles rising in a carbonated drink, raindrops falling through the air, gasoline and air reacting in an automobile engine, and water and steam circulating through a nuclear reactor.

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Zohuri, B. (2017). Convective Boiling. In: Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Nuclear Reactors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53829-7_14

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