Lateral flow field behavior downstream of mixing vanes in a simulated nuclear fuel rod bundle

Proceedings of the 2004 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, ICAPP'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1513-1519

  Conner, Michael E ^a   Smith III, L David ^a   Holloway, Mary V ^b   Beasley, Donald E ^b  

^a Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel   (United States)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULICS; INSTRUMENT TESTING; KINEMATICS; KINETIC ENERGY; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

AZIMUTHAL DOMAINS; MIXING VANES; NUCLEAR FUEL RODS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV);

NUCLEAR FUELS;

EID: 14844314220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. M.E. CONNER and L.D. Smith, III, "Study of Flow Distribution and Heat Transfer in PWR Fuel," ANS Transactions, Vol. 86, 2002 ANS Annual Meeting, June 9-13, 2002, Hollywood, Florida, pp. 152-153 (2002).
2. M. E. CONNER, L. D. Smith, III, D.V. Paramonov, B. Liu, and M. Dzodzo, "Understanding and Predicting the Flow Field in a Reactor Core," Proceedings of the ENS TopFuel 2003 /ANS LWR Fuel Performance Meeting 2003 TopFuel Conference, INFORUM GmbH, March 16-19, Wurzburg, Germany (2003).
3. H.L. MCCLUSKY, M.V. Holloway, D.E. Beasley, and M.E. Conner, "Development of Swirling Flow in a Rod Bundle Subchannel," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 124, pp. 747-755 (2002).