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From: Investigation of Natural Convection Heat-Transfer Phenomena in Packed Beds: Lead-Way Toward New Nuclear Fuel Design
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Section through part of the test facility with a particle test sample highlighted. (i) Heat transfer by particle-to-fluid mode, (ii) heat transfer by fluid-to-particle mode, (iii) heat transfer from the bed wall to the particles, (iv) heat transfer by particle-to-particle mode, (v) radiant heat transfer between particles, and (vi) radiant heat transfer between side wall and particles.

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(a) Schematic diagram of experimental setup (for illustration purpose), (b) sectional view of instrumented test particle/particle test sample, and (c) experimental setup

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(a) Schematic representation of contacting adjacent particles, (b) control volumes with grid points, (c) finite contact spot of smooth contacting spherical surfaces, and (d) temperature distribution with increasing length along particle diameter

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Heat conduction between two smooth-elastic particles in perfect contact

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Thermal resistance network for spherical Hertzian contact

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Schematics of the regular LWR cladding tube with fuel pellets

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Schematics of proposed coated particle fuel design in a cladding SiC tube

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Figure Legend:
Effect of gas thermal conductivity on convective fluid-to-particle heat-transfer coefficient in the packed bed

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Nusselt number in the packed bed as a function of convective fluid-to-particle heat-transfer coefficient

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Figure Legend:
Variation of Nusselt number on the Rayleigh number for fluid-to-particle heat transfer