Flow visualization in a pebble bed reactor experiment using PIV and refractive index matching techniques

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3080-3085

  Hassan, Yassin A ^a   Dominguez Ontiveros, E E ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; LIGHT REFRACTION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PACKED BEDS; POROUS MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; THERMOANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER COOLED REACTORS;

COATED PARTICLES; COMPLEX FLOWS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW QUANTITIES; FLOW-THROUGH; FUEL PEBBLES; GAS-COOLED; LUMPED PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION; OPTICAL ACCESSES; PACKED BED REACTOR; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY TECHNIQUES; PEBBLE BEDS; PEBBLE-BED REACTORS; POROUS MEDIUMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX MATCHING; TEMPERATURE FIELDS; TRANSFER PHENOMENON; VELOCITY FIELD MEASUREMENTS; VELOCITY FIELDS;

COATED FUEL PARTICLES;

EID: 53949101575     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2008.01.027     Document Type: Article

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