Investigation of swirling flow in rod bundle subchannels using computational fluid dynamics

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Holloway, Mary V ^a   Beasley, Donald E ^b,d   Conner, Michael E ^c  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

^c Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel   (United States)

^d ASME

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARALLEL RODS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); ROD BUNDLE; SUBCHANNELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

SWIRLING FLOW;

EID: 33845748630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE14-89068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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