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. | Correlation | Average error (%) | RMS error (%) | No. of applicable data points |
| Equation (B.1) |
Dittus and Boelter (1930) | −5.2500 | 9.4837 | All 355 | Equation (B.2) |
Mc Adams (1942) | −5.7839 | 9.8609 | All 355 | Equation (B.3) |
Bringer and Smith (1957) | −5.1090 | 9.6819 | All 355 | Equation (B.4) |
Shitsman (1959, 1974) | −3.7453 | 8.5276 | All 355 | Equation (B.5) |
Bishop et al. (1964) | −3.8194 | 6.5453 | 66 | Equation (B.6) | Swenson et al. [1] | 6.5411 | 14.4906 | 90 | Equation (B.7) |
Krasnoshchekov et al. (1967) | 0.0237 | 0.1560 | 9 | Equation (B.8) | Kondrat’ev [20] | −1.2354 | 6.4086 | 282 | Equation (B.9) |
Ornatsky et al. (1970) | −1.2940 | 8.9133 | All 355 | Equation (B.10) | Yamagata et al. [3] | −7.0392 | 11.0684 | All 355 | Equation (B.11) |
Watts and Chou et al. (1982) | −3.6744 | 8.3295 | All 355 | Equation (B.12) |
Gorban et al. (1990) | −1.0198 | 7.9306 | 169 | Equation (B.13) |
Griem (1996) | −6.4152 | 10.2791 | All 355 | Equation (B.14) |
Kitoh et al. (1999) | −6.5683 | 10.5762 | 340 | Equation (B.15) |
Jackson (2002) | −4.4797 | 8.6144 | All 355 | Equation (B.16) |
Kang and Chang et al. [11] | −1.6150 | 7.8109 | All 355 | Equation (B.17) | Zhu et al. [12] | −3.7481 | 7.7072
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| All 355 | Equation (B.18) | Mokry et al. [15] | −0.0489
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| 8.8816 | All 355 |
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The lowest of the correlations applied to all 355 data points.
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