Experimental and numerical investigation of counter-current stratified flows in horizontal channels

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 627-636

  Wintterle, Thomas ^a   Laurien, Eckart ^a   Stäbler, Thomas ^b   Meyer, Leonhard ^b   Schulenberg, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE INJECTORS;

PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; STRATIFIED FLOWS;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS;

EID: 39149114436     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.02.043     Document Type: Article

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