Particle image velocimetry of swirling flow in a subchannel of a rod bundle

Proceedings of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 479-485

  Langford, Heather M ^a   Armfield, Mary V ^a   Beasley, Donald E ^a   Conner, Michael E ^b  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); VORTEX GENERATORS;

BOILING LIQUIDS; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; NUCLEAR REACTORS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

SWIRLING FLOW;

EID: 0346888770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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