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Some results of the verification of SERPENT code while calculating heat transfer crisis in uniformly heated tubes

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The results of calculating the parameters of heat transfer crisis regimes in uniformly heated tubes, obtained with the aid of look-up tables (LTs) Grnv-95 and FEI-91 are presented.

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Original Russian Text © A.M. Ganzhinov, Yu.M. Zhukov, M.G. Sivkova, V.S. Ustinov, 2006, published in Teploenergetika.

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Ganzhinov, A.M., Zhukov, Y.M., Sivkova, M.G. et al. Some results of the verification of SERPENT code while calculating heat transfer crisis in uniformly heated tubes. Therm. Eng. 53, 288–295 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601506040057

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