Review Article

Review of the Wall Temperature Prediction Capability of Available Correlations for Heat Transfer at Supercritical Conditions of Water

Table 4

Average and RMS errors of wall temperature prediction by various correlations for the selected data points.

Equation no.CorrelationAverage error (%)RMS error (%)No. of applicable data points

Equation (B.1) Dittus and Boelter (1930)−5.25009.4837All 355
Equation (B.2) Mc Adams (1942)−5.78399.8609All 355
Equation (B.3) Bringer and Smith (1957)−5.10909.6819All 355
Equation (B.4) Shitsman (1959, 1974)−3.74538.5276All 355
Equation (B.5) Bishop et al. (1964)−3.81946.545366
Equation (B.6)Swenson et al. [1]6.541114.490690
Equation (B.7) Krasnoshchekov et al. (1967)0.02370.15609
Equation (B.8)Kondrat’ev [20]−1.23546.4086282
Equation (B.9) Ornatsky et al. (1970)−1.29408.9133All 355
Equation (B.10)Yamagata et al. [3]−7.039211.0684All 355
Equation (B.11) Watts and Chou et al. (1982)−3.67448.3295All 355
Equation (B.12) Gorban et al. (1990)−1.01987.9306169
Equation (B.13) Griem (1996)−6.415210.2791All 355
Equation (B.14) Kitoh et al. (1999)−6.568310.5762340
Equation (B.15) Jackson (2002)−4.47978.6144All 355
Equation (B.16) Kang and Chang et al. [11] −1.61507.8109All 355
Equation (B.17)Zhu et al. [12]−3.74817.7072 * All 355
Equation (B.18)Mokry et al. [15]0.0489 * 8.8816All 355

The lowest of the correlations applied to all 355 data points.