Measurement of fluid distributions in a rotating fluid coupling using high resolution gamma ray tomography

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 0914021-0914028

  Hampel, U ^a   Hoppe, D ^a   Bieberle, A ^a   Kernchen, R ^b   Diele, K H ^b   Schleicher, E ^a   Da Silva, M J ^a   Zippe, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Voith Paper GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluid coupling; Gamma ray tomography; Two phase flow measurement

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IONIZING RADIATION; ISOTOPES; MEDICAL IMAGING; ROTATION; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SPEED; STARS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY CAMERAS;

FLUID COUPLING; FLUID COUPLINGS; FLUID DISTRIBUTIONS; GAMMA RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA RAY TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA-RAY DETECTORS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIORS; OPERATION POINTS; PUMP SPEED; ROTATING FLUIDS; STRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTS; TOMOGRAPHIC DATA; TORQUE TRANSFER; TWO-PHASE FLOW MEASUREMENT;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 52649140014     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2953295     Document Type: Article

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