TY - JOUR
TI - Analytical and semi-analytical models of conduction controlled rewetting: A state of the art review
AU - Sahu Santosh Kumar
AU - Das Prasanta Kumar
AU - Bhattacharyya Souvik
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2015
VL - 19
IS - 5
SP - 1479
EP - 1496
PT - Article
AB - The phenomenon of rewetting finds application in several fields of industrial  and scientific applications including the loss of coolant accidents (LOCA) in  nuclear reactors. In order to analyze the phenomena of rewetting, usually a  conduction controlled approach or hydrodynamic approach was considered.  Because of complexity, most of the studies adopt a conduction controlled  approach to analyze the phenomena of rewetting. In view of this, various  analytical and semi-analytical techniques have been used to solve the  conduction equation. Investigations have mostly considered different  geometries, various convective boundary conditions for both the dry and wet  surface, effect of heat generation, variable properties, coupling between  conduction and convection as well as other variations of the problem. A  comprehensive review of the available analytical modelsis presented in this  paper.