Experimental study on the air/water counter-current flow limitation in a model of the hot leg of a pressurized water reactor

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3389-3402

  Deendarlianto, ^a,b   Vallée, Christophe ^a   Lucas, Dirk ^a   Beyer, Matthias ^a   Pietruske, Heiko ^a   Carl, Helmar ^a  

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

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW RATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE INTERFACES; PIPE FLOW; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; SEPARATORS; SMALL NUCLEAR REACTORS; SPEED; TWO PHASE FLOW; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER LEVELS;

AIR MASS FLOW RATES; CHANNEL HEIGHTS; COUNTERCURRENT FLOW LIMITATIONS; CURRENT FLOWS; DISCHARGED WATERS; DISPERSED STRUCTURES; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOODING; HORIZONTAL RECTANGULAR CHANNELS; INCLINATION ANGLES; LIQUID PENETRATIONS; PRESSURIZED WATERS; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; RECTANGULAR GEOMETRIES; SLUG FLOWS; SPEED CAMERAS; TWO-PHASE FLOWS; WATER MASS FLOWS;

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 54949132481     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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