- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Interscience (July 19 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0471329673
- ISBN-13: 978-0471329671
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 739 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #42 in Books > Engineering > Energy > Nuclear
- #42 in Books > Professional & Technical > Engineering > Energy > Nuclear
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The first comprehensive, real-world look at two-phase flow systems-from one of the world's leading authorities on the subject.
From his early works in the area of heat transfer research on boundary layer flows and two-phase flows to his role as one of the lead consultants following the Three Mile Island accident, internationally renowned engineer Salomon Levy has achieved an ideal balance of theory and practice in his engineering career. In Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems, Dr. Levy's newest book, he draws on this breadth of experience to examine these systems in the real world.
Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems offers a unique look at two-phase flow phenomena (primarily gas and liquid) in a variety of systems, from water reactors to the global climate system. Focusing on the interaction and simultaneous behavior of all the components in a system, the book's approach departs significantly from conventional texts, which emphasize modeling of separate phenomena. The book begins with the formulation of an integrated program of experiments and analytical tools, and describes experimental aspects-specifically the scaling of test facilities-essential to representing the critical elements of the behavior of complex systems. Subsequent chapters:
* Discuss system computer codes for predicting system behavior during transients and accidents.
* Examine flow pattern maps and flow pattern models.
* Describe typical limiting phenomena known to impact the safety and cost of complex systems (including countercurrent limiting conditions and critical or choking flow).
The book also illustrates how the analysis used in understanding the dynamics of a nuclear power system can be applied to the entire global climate system, including the phenomenon of global warming.
From his early works in the area of heat transfer research on boundary layer flows and two-phase flows to his role as one of the lead consultants following the Three Mile Island accident, internationally renowned engineer Salomon Levy has achieved an ideal balance of theory and practice in his engineering career. In Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems, Dr. Levy's newest book, he draws on this breadth of experience to examine these systems in the real world.
Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems offers a unique look at two-phase flow phenomena (primarily gas and liquid) in a variety of systems, from water reactors to the global climate system. Focusing on the interaction and simultaneous behavior of all the components in a system, the book's approach departs significantly from conventional texts, which emphasize modeling of separate phenomena. The book begins with the formulation of an integrated program of experiments and analytical tools, and describes experimental aspects-specifically the scaling of test facilities-essential to representing the critical elements of the behavior of complex systems. Subsequent chapters:
* Discuss system computer codes for predicting system behavior during transients and accidents.
* Examine flow pattern maps and flow pattern models.
* Describe typical limiting phenomena known to impact the safety and cost of complex systems (including countercurrent limiting conditions and critical or choking flow).
The book also illustrates how the analysis used in understanding the dynamics of a nuclear power system can be applied to the entire global climate system, including the phenomenon of global warming.
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The first comprehensive, real-world look at two-phase flow systems-from one of the world's leading authorities on the subject.
From his early works in the area of heat transfer research on boundary layer flows and two-phase flows to his role as one of the lead consultants following the Three Mile Island accident, internationally renowned engineer Salomon Levy has achieved an ideal balance of theory and practice in his engineering career. In Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems, Dr. Levy's newest book, he draws on this breadth of experience to examine these systems in the real world.
Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems offers a unique look at two-phase flow phenomena (primarily gas and liquid) in a variety of systems, from water reactors to the global climate system. Focusing on the interaction and simultaneous behavior of all the components in a system, the book's approach departs significantly from conventional texts, which emphasize modeling of separate phenomena. The book begins with the formulation of an integrated program of experiments and analytical tools, and describes experimental aspects-specifically the scaling of test facilities-essential to representing the critical elements of the behavior of complex systems. Subsequent chapters:
* Discuss system computer codes for predicting system behavior during transients and accidents.
* Examine flow pattern maps and flow pattern models.
* Describe typical limiting phenomena known to impact the safety and cost of complex systems (including countercurrent limiting conditions and critical or choking flow).
The book also illustrates how the analysis used in understanding the dynamics of a nuclear power system can be applied to the entire global climate system, including the phenomenon of global warming.
From his early works in the area of heat transfer research on boundary layer flows and two-phase flows to his role as one of the lead consultants following the Three Mile Island accident, internationally renowned engineer Salomon Levy has achieved an ideal balance of theory and practice in his engineering career. In Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems, Dr. Levy's newest book, he draws on this breadth of experience to examine these systems in the real world.
Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems offers a unique look at two-phase flow phenomena (primarily gas and liquid) in a variety of systems, from water reactors to the global climate system. Focusing on the interaction and simultaneous behavior of all the components in a system, the book's approach departs significantly from conventional texts, which emphasize modeling of separate phenomena. The book begins with the formulation of an integrated program of experiments and analytical tools, and describes experimental aspects-specifically the scaling of test facilities-essential to representing the critical elements of the behavior of complex systems. Subsequent chapters:
* Discuss system computer codes for predicting system behavior during transients and accidents.
* Examine flow pattern maps and flow pattern models.
* Describe typical limiting phenomena known to impact the safety and cost of complex systems (including countercurrent limiting conditions and critical or choking flow).
The book also illustrates how the analysis used in understanding the dynamics of a nuclear power system can be applied to the entire global climate system, including the phenomenon of global warming.
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This is a comprehensive and timely text on multiphase flow and heat transfer for a nuclear engineer and those who are interested in nuclear reactor safety assessment, to have a picture of what may be happending in nuclear power plants under accident conditions, including hypothetical core meltdown situations. It is helpful since a majority of those who run reactor-safety computer codes do not have good grip on phenomenological understanding and models which formed the backbone of these codes. With respect to severe accidents, the author made a terrific attempt to go beyond the mundane of empiricism, but phenomena are too complex and there are too large uncertainties that somehow reduces the value of detailed modeling of particular processes. Knowledge gained to date in simulant-materials and small-scale experiments not necessarily provides the adequate picture of what could happen in reality.Especially since in most cases, measurements were indirect and models are speculative. Therefore a sense of caution is recommended to look behind equations and aware of where and how they were derived or conditions in which correlations were obtained.
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This is a comprehensive and timely text on multiphase flow and heat transfer for a nuclear engineer and those who are interested in nuclear reactor safety assessment, to have a picture of what may be happending in nuclear power plants under accident conditions, including hypothetical core meltdown situations. It is helpful since a majority of those who run reactor-safety computer codes do not have good grip on phenomenological understanding and models which formed the backbone of these codes. With respect to severe accidents, the author made a terrific attempt to go beyond the mundane of empiricism, but phenomena are too complex and there are too large uncertainties that somehow reduces the value of detailed modeling of particular processes. Knowledge gained to date in simulant-materials and small-scale experiments not necessarily provides the adequate picture of what could happen in reality.Especially since in most cases, measurements were indirect and models are speculative. Therefore a sense of caution is recommended to look behind equations and aware of where and how they were derived or conditions in which correlations were obtained.
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