Mapping of the lateral flow field in typical subchannels of a support grid with vanes

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 987-996

  McClusky, Heather L ^a   Holloway, Mary V ^a   Conover, Timothy A ^a   Beasley, Donald E ^a   Conner, Michael E ^b   Smith III, L David ^b  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SWIRLING FLOW; VELOCIMETERS; VORTEX FLOW;

LATERAL FLOW FIELDS; MULTIPLE VORTICES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; VORTEX INTERACTIONS;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

EID: 1642577260     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1625688     Document Type: Article

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