Research Article

Theoretical Study on the Characteristics of Critical Heat Flux in Rectangular Channel of Natural Circulation under Motion Conditions

Table 2

Flow regimes and flow friction correlations.

Flow regimeCorrelation

Single-phase:
Laminar flow (C = 64 for circular tube, C = 96 for rectangular channel)
Transition flowInterpolation
Turbulent flowBlasius model

Two-phase:
Mixture model (two-phase multiplier)Lockhart–Martinelli model