Droplets behavior impacting on a hot surface above the Leidenfrost temperature

Droplets behavior impacting on a hot surface above the Leidenfrost temperature

•The droplet behaviors impacting on a hot surface above the Leidenfrost temperature has been performed.•The droplet diameters, velocities, and spreading diameters were measured.•The COBRA-TF correlation over-predicts the breakup size of secondary droplets.•A new model for the breakup size of seconda...

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Published in:Annals of nuclear energy Vol. 80; pp. 338 - 347
Main Authors: Hamdan, Khaleel Sami, Kim, Dong-Eok, Moon, Sang-Ki
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 01-06-2015
Subjects:
Break-up
Conservation
Correlation
Droplet
Droplets
Hot surfaces
Impact
Inclined hot surface
Leidenfrost temperature
LOCA
Mathematical models
Nuclear reactor components
Spreading
Weber number
Impact
LOCA
Leidenfrost temperature
Break-up
Droplet
Inclined hot surface
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Summary:•The droplet behaviors impacting on a hot surface above the Leidenfrost temperature has been performed.•The droplet diameters, velocities, and spreading diameters were measured.•The COBRA-TF correlation over-predicts the breakup size of secondary droplets.•A new model for the breakup size of secondary droplets was developed.•The new model predicts the present experiments as well as other experiments. Experimental studies of droplet behaviors impacting on a hot surface above the Leidenfrost temperature have been performed to provide improvements in the modeling of heat transfer in a ballooned surface characteristic of a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA). Droplets of known size and velocity were impacted on a hot surface above the Leidenfrost temperature. The spreading of droplets into a liquid film on the surface and the breakup of the droplets were observed using a high-speed camera. For droplets of higher normal Weber number than a threshold value, the higher the normal Weber number of the droplet the smaller the secondary droplets. The conventional correlations showed fairly good agreements with the maximum spreading diameters of the droplets on the hot surface. On the other hand, the size of the secondary droplets resulting from an impact upon the hot surface was not well predicted by the COBRA-TF correlation. A new improved model for the secondary droplet size was developed using the mass conservation with a correction factor. The new model showed good predictions of the secondary droplet size for the present experiment as well as other experiments.
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ISSN:0306-4549
1873-2100
DOI:10.1016/j.anucene.2015.02.021