Incorporation and testing of refrigerant fluids (R-134a) in the subchannel analysis code CTF (COBRA-TF)

The subchannel codes such as COBRA-TF (CTF) are often used in the simulation of thermal hydraulic parameters in a reactor core. Use of these codes for safety analysis requires extensive validation against experimental data. While typically validation is performed on experiments in water, a large number of experiments using refrigerant are available in literature and may be used to expand the validation range of these codes. This research is …