Fan-Bill Cheung

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
George L. Guillet Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Research Summary

Research interests include solidification and melting, turbulent natural convection, two-phase flow and heat transfer, nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and safety, thermal processing of materials, thermal behavior of high-temperature ablatives, and dense spray and atomization.

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Recent Publications

Experimental investigation and correlation development for liquid carryover during reflood

Beck, F. R., Garrett, G. R., Mishra, P. P., Cheung, F. B., Bajorek, S. M., Hoxie, C. L. & Tien, K., Oct 2023, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 412, 112440.

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Measurements of Droplet Size and Velocity Distributions During Rod Bundle Core Reflood

Garrett, G. R., Lowery, B. R., Hanson, M. K., Miller, D. J., Almudhhi, T., Cheung, F. B., Bajorek, S. M., Tien, K. & Hoxie, C. L., 2023, In: Nuclear Science and Engineering. 197, 10, p. 2686-2710 25 p.

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Validation and Uncertainty Quantification of Transient Reflood Models Using COBRA-TF and Machine Learning Techniques Based on the NRC/PSU RBHT Benchmark

Jin, Y., Bajorek, S. M. & Cheung, F. B., 2023, In: Nuclear Science and Engineering. 197, 5, p. 967-986 20 p.

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Numerical and experimental investigations on melting heat transfer performance of PCM in finned cold thermal energy storage

Lee, Y. T., Chien, L. H., Cheung, F. B. & Yang, A. S., Aug 15 2023, In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 210, 124199.

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Acoustic Analysis of the Effects of Vapor-Liquid Interfacial Morphology on Pool-Boiling Heat Transfer

Almadih, M. H., Almudhhi, T., Ebrahim, S., Howell, A., Garrett, G. R., Bajorek, S. M. & Cheung, F. B., 2022, In: Nuclear Technology. 208, 8, p. 1290-1300 11 p.

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Heat transfer correlation for film boiling during quenching of micro-structured surfaces

Ebrahim, S. A., Cheung, F. B., Bajorek, S. M., Tien, K. & Hoxie, C. L., Nov 2022, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 398, 111943.

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Experimental and Numerical Studies of Pressure and Oscillatory Flow Effects on the Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer in a Rod Bundle

Garrett, G., Beck, F., Miller, D., Lowery, B., Cheung, F. B., Bajorek, S., Hoxie, C. & Tien, K., Mar 2022, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 388, 111602.

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An engineering stability technique for unsteady, two-phase flows with heat and mass transfer

Beck, F. R., Mohanta, L., Henderson, D. M., Cheung, F. B. & Talmage, G., Sep 2021, In: International Journal of Multiphase Flow. 142, 103709.

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Development of a downward-facing nucleate boiling correlation for thermal hydraulics analysis

Cheung, F. B., Sohag, F. A. & Riley, M. P., Jan 1 2021, In: Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 120, 110256.

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40th Anniversary of the first international topical meeting on nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics: Highlights of thermal-hydraulics research in the past four decades

Merzari, E., Cheung, F. B., Bajorek, S. M. & Hassan, Y., Mar 2021, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 373, 110965.

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Progress in reflood thermal hydraulics studies in the past 40 years

Yang, B. W., Bajorek, S. M., Jin, Y. & Cheung, F. B., May 2021, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 376, 111073.

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Development of a new spacer grid pressure drop model in rod bundle for the post-dryout two-phase flow regime during reflood transients

Jin, Y., Cheung, F. B., Shirvan, K., Bajorek, S. M., Tien, K. & Hoxie, C. L., Nov 2020, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 368, 110815.

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Numerical investigation of rod bundle thermal–hydraulic behavior during reflood transients using COBRA-TF

Jin, Y., Cheung, F. B., Shirvan, K., Bajorek, S. M., Tien, K. & Hoxie, C. L., Dec 1 2020, In: Annals of Nuclear Energy. 148, 107708.

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Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Thermal-Hydraulic Program

Bajorek, S. M. & Cheung, F. B., Jan 2 2019, In: Nuclear Technology. 205, 1-2, p. 307-327 21 p.

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Effect of fouling on quenching of simulated fuel rods

Beck, F. R., Jin, Y., Garrett, G., Cheung, F. B., Bajorek, S. M., Tien, K. & Hoxie, C. L., 2019, In: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 120, p. 1123-1125 3 p.

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