Experimental investigation on thermal striping. Mixing phenomena of a vertical non-buoyant jet with two adjacent buoyant jets as measured by ultrasound Doppler velocimetry

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-73

  Tokuhiro, A ^a   Kimura, N ^a  

^a Oarai Engineering Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; HYDRAULICS; JETS; NOZZLES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLES; TURBULENT FLOW; ULTRASONIC DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

THERMAL MIXING; THERMAL STRIPING;

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032661783     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(99)00006-0     Document Type: Article

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