@inbook{2410f6f1dae84f26a35d62e7825a8ace,
title = "Experimental investigation on contact angles of molten lead-lithium on silicon carbide surface",
abstract = "A contact angle database of a molten lead-lithium eutectic alloy (PbLi) droplet on a silicon carbide (SiC) is basic information for research and development both of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) and inertia confinement fusion (ICF) blankets. PbLi coolant/breeder flows in the coolant channel made of the SiC walls will experience a flow slip at the wall, called as a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) slip flow. An ICF blanket adopts a molten PbLi film flow along the SiC first wall. The PbLi contact angle database is necessary for numerically predicting the molten PbLi film flow behaviors. The present study is attempted to measure the contact angles formed between the molten PbLi and the various SiC surfaces, e.g. a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) SiC and a nano-infiltration and transient eutectic-phase (NITE) SiC/SiC composite in an inert atmosphere in order to examine an initial PbLi wettability. As the results, the molten PbLi contact angle database is obtained, which covers the PbLi temperature from 250 to 400°C on the surface-polished and unpolished SiC, respectively.",
keywords = "Contact angle, Lead-lithium, Silicon carbide",
author = "Yoshitaka Ueki and Tomoaki Kunugi and Keiichi Nagai and Masaru Hirabayashi and Kuniaki Ara and Yukihiro Yonemoto and Tatsuya Hinoki",
note = "Funding Information: The authors were grateful for the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan via “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming” of Global Center of Excellence (G-COE) program (J-051).",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1007/978-4-431-53910-0_36",
language = "English",
isbn = "9784431539094",
series = "Green Energy and Technology",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "271--277",
booktitle = "Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2010",
}