- Author
- Berthoud, G.
- Title
- Vapor Explosions.
- Coporate
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble, Grenoble cedex 9 France
- Journal
- Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 32, 573-611, January 2000
- Keywords
- vapors | explosions | nuclear reactor safety | accidents | heat transfer | liquids | expansion | experiments | thermodynamics | evaluation | equations | geometry | pressure
- Identifiers
- thermite; premixxing phase; triggering phase; propagation phase; expansion phase; Sandia National Laboratory Experimental Program; Winfrith Experimental Program Using UO2-Mo Thermite; treatment of stream explosion; melt jet fragmentation; general problem of extending two-phase constitutive laws to multiphase systems; triggering mechanisms; nonequilibrium aspect for the coolant in the interaction zone; effect of noncondensable gases