Affiliation:
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
Abstract
An analysis was developed for natural circulation flows in vertical multiple-channel systems with nonuniform heat inputs. A three-channel configuration was investigated in detail both analytically and experimentally. The results showed the existence of a metastable regime in which two metastable flow patterns could occur for a given set of heat input rates. A third predicted flow pattern in this regime was shown to be unstable and, therefore, nonexistent in practice.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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