%0 Journal Article %A Efanov, A. D. %A Ivanov, E. F. %A Kolesnik, V. P. %A Korkhov, O. A. %A Mal'kov, V. L. %A Martsinyuk, D. E. %A Rymkevich, K. S. %A Sorokin, A. P. %A Bogoslovskaya, Galina Pavlovna %D 2001 %I Begell House %N 1-3 %P 9 %R 10.1615/HeatTransRes.v32.i1-3.140 %T Experimental and Computational Investigations of Heat Transfer and Stability of Boiling Liquid Metal in a Model of an Array of the Fast-Neutron Reactor Fuel Elements %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/46784ef93dddff27,62a9a6b1316cf959,5c59bcf25e8da52f.html %V 32 %X The paper presents and analyzes experimental and calculated data on the boiling of a sodium-potassium heat carrier in an array of simulators of fuel elements in a loop with natural circulation which models the conditions of operation of a fast reactor in the regime of accidental cooling. At different mass flow rates of a heat carrier, three regimes of boiling were obtained: a stable (bubble) regime at the initial stage of boiling, then a pulsing (slug) regime which, on increase in the power supply, passed into the second stable (mist) regime of boiling. %8 2001-04-01