A two-dimensional computational model of a spent 7x7 Boiling Water Reactor assembly in a horizontal support basket was developed using the Fluent computational fluid dynamics package. Heat transfer simulations were performed to predict the maximum cladding temperature for assembly heat generation rates between 100 and 600W, uniform basket wall temperatures of 25 and 4000C, and with helium and n...

The development and evaluation of a differential style heat flux gauge is presented. The sensor is constructed from spot-welded foils of copper and constantan on either side of a thin Kapton® polyimide film and is capable of measuring the heat flux and surface temperature at ten locations simultaneously. Analytical modeling was performed to estimate the sensor’s sensitivity and time response. C...

Radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of surface convection in low-mass stars can be exploited to derive estimates of i) the efficiency of the convective energy transport in the stellar surface layers; ii) the convection-related photometric micro-variability. We comment on the universality of the mixing-length parameter, and point out potential pitfalls in the process of its calibration which ma...

The SEVIRI instrument on the Meteosat Second Generation satellite with both fine spatial and temporal resolution allows to detect and follow the dynamics of fast developing meteorological events like spreading smoke plumes and the lifecycles of convective clouds. Smoke plumes have the ability to change the atmospheric heat content due to absorption and reduced reflection of solar radiation. By ...

Lagged maximum covariance analysis (LMCA) is used to examine the intraseasonal variability of zonal wind, sea surface temperature (SST), and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) in the northeastern tropical Pacific Ocean during Northern Hemisphere summertime. The analysis shows a strong temporal asymmetry in that wind and convection anomalies lead to SST anomalies, but SST anomalies are not follow...

Experimental and computed losses and reactor tube temperature profiles are presented for three ammonia receiver/reactor geometries operating on a 9 m dish concentrator. Preliminary analysis of receiver losses indicates that as the half cone angle of the receiver tube frustum reduces – from 17.5o to 7.5o to 3.7o – there is a shift from convection-dominated losses to radiation-dominated losses. T...

The effects of heat and mass transfer on MHD mixed convection flow of a vertical surface with radiation, heat source/absorption and chemical reaction has been is discussed. The resulting set of coupled non-linear ordinary differential equations is solved by perturbation technique and for graphs we used MATLAB software. Approximate solutions have been derived for the velocity, temperature, conce...

Why heat and mass transfer ................................................................................................................................1 Fundamentals of heat transfer (what is it) ..........................................................................................................2 Thermodynamics of heat transfer ............................................................

This study addresses the onset of convection in an inductively-coupled model plasma lens. The principle of operation of a plasma lens consists of focusing light by tuning the refractive-index distribution, or equivalently, the electron-density field in a partiallyionized gas environment. Departures from axisymmetry in the electron-density distribution are observed in the present three-dimension...