Recent content by davefitz

I just read a few papers on the gen IV SCWR, and am very surprised that the issues uncovered in the 1950's ( when it was first proposed) aren't being addressed. for example, the below papers by Hyman et al use relatively simple calculations of circuit thermal hydraulic "sensitivity" to...

more papers re: supercritical heat transfer some papers found to be useful ,as applied to the use of supercritical heat transfer in fossil fired boilers: BS Shiralkar + Peter Griffith "Deterioration in Heat Transfer to Fluids at Supercritical Pressure and High Heat Flux" ASME J of heat trans...