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
Performance enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage systems via dynamic melting process of PCM under different control strategies
Lee, Y. T., Liao, Y. R., Chien, L. H., Cheung, F. B. & Yang, A. S., Jan 15 2025, In: Applied Thermal Engineering. 259, 124903.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Toward a Better Understanding of Reflood Thermal Hydraulics: A Summary of the OECD/NEA RBHT Project
Bajorek, S. M., Lowery, B., Cheung, F. B., Del Ferraro, A., Cherubini, M., Petruzzi, A., Zhang, J. & Adorni, M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Nuclear Technology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
TRACE code core reflood thermal-hydraulics phenomena benchmarking against the NRC–PSU Rod Bundle Heat Transfer (RBHT) test facility
Garrett, G. R., Miller, D. J., Almudhhi, T., Cheung, F. B., Lowery, B. R., Hanson, M. K., Bajorek, S. M., Tien, K. & Hoxie, C. L., Dec 1 2024, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 429, 113539.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review