INVESTIGADORES
CLAUSSE Alejandro
artículos
Título:
THE INFLUENCE OF GRAVITY ON THE STABILITY OF BOILING FLOWS
Autor/es:
D DELMASTRO; A CLAUSSE; J CONVERTI
Revista:
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
Referencias:
Año: 1991 vol. 127 p. 129 - 139
ISSN:
0029-5493
Resumen:
The effect of gravity on the stability of a single boiling channel is studied. Experiments were performed in a natural circulation loop with a single boiling channel. A region of instability at low powers was identified. The flow evolves in a series of irregular oscillations developing a superposition of two different frequencies. The stability of the system is analyzed using a homogeneous model in the frequency domain. Such an analysis predicts a destabilizing effect of the gravity term of the momentum equation, which is characterized by the Froude number.
