Acoustic precursors of critical heat flux on actively cooled fusion reactor components

Proceedings - 12th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, NURETH-12

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Courtois, Xavier ^a   Escourbiac, F ^a   Durocher, A ^a   Riccardi, B ^b   Boinet, M ^c   Merola, M ^d  

^a IRFM   (France)

^b EFDA CLOSE SUPPORT UNIT   (Germany)

^c Euro Physical Acoustics SA   (France)

^d ITER ORGANIZATION   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Critical heat flux; Plasma facing component

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BOILING LIQUIDS; FUSION REACTOR DIVERTORS; PLASMA DEVICES; THERMAL LOAD;

ACOUSTIC MONITORING; ACTIVELY COOLED FUSION REACTORS; PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS; PLASMA FACING COMPONENT;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 44349140663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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