@inproceedings{d193658fa6fa47dea6e733495abbaaf4,
title = "COPRA experiments on melt pool behavior with eutectic NANO3-KNO3 simulant",
abstract = "The COPRA experiments were performed to study the natural convection heat transfer behavior in a large-scale homogeneous melt pool inside the reactor pressure vessel lower plenum. The test section consists of a two-dimensional 1/4 circular slice with an inner radius of 2.2 m. A non-eutectic binary mixture 20\%NaNO3-80\%KNO3 was selected as melt simulant in the previous tests and the Rayleigh number of the melt pool reached up to 1016. In this paper, the working fluid was a eutectic binary mixture 50\%NaNO3-50\%KNO3. The melt pool temperature, heat flux distribution and crust thickness were obtained in the experiments with different heating powers. Results from the eutectic molten salt tests can be applied for posttest calculations and comparative analyses.",
keywords = "COPRA, Heat transfer, Melt pool, Severe accident",
author = "Yukun Zhou and Yapei Zhang and Simin Luo and Zhichun Xu and Luteng Zhang and Suizheng Qiu and Su, \{G. H.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2018 ASME.; 2018 26th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ICONE 2018 ; Conference date: 22-07-2018 Through 26-07-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1115/ICONE26-81367",
language = "英语",
series = "International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE",
publisher = "American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)",
booktitle = "Thermal-Hydraulics and Safety Analyses",
}