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Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 1 | April 1989 | Pages 98-108
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34231
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The choking criterion for nonhomogeneous nonequilibrium two-phase flow has been obtained by solving the two-fluid conservation equations. The method of characteristics is employed to predict the critical flow conditions. Numerical results revealed that the proposed model reliably predicted the critical two-phase flow phenomenon and compared well with existing experimental data as well as with other analytical models.