ISSN Print: 1049-0787
ISSN Online: 2375-0294
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CHANG-LIN TIEN'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO LIQUID PHASE CHANGE AND HEAT PIPES
RESUMO
As in his other areas of research, Professor Tien has published in many diverse areas involving liquid phase change and heat pipes. In order to make a more coherent presentation, his contributions have been divided into three areas: Rewetting and Flooding; Heat Pipes and Thermosyphons; and Boiling and Condensation. For approximately a decade beginning in the mid 1970s, Professor Chang-Lin Tien studied the phenomena of Rewetting and Flooding. The impetus for this work resulted from the consideration of emergency core cooling in postulated loss of cooling accidents (LOCAs) in BWRs (boiling water reactors) and PWRs (pressurized water reactors). The nuclear energy community and specifically EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) was very concerned that these two phenomena might limit the ability of water to cool a reactor during a postulated LOCA.