Development of swirling flow in a rod bundle subchannel

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 747-755

  McClusky, Heather L ^a   Holloway, Mary V ^a   Beasley, Donald E ^a   Conner, Michael E ^b  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTHAL VELOCITY; LATERAL FLOW FIELDS; OPTICAL BORESCOPE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHANNEL FLOW; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 0345833498     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1478066     Document Type: Article

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