Local and area-averaged flow structure of air-water two-phase flow in a vertical annulus

International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Proceedings, ICONE

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 37-47

  Ozar, Basar ^a   Jeong, Jae Jun ^b   Dixit, Abhinav ^a   Juliá, Jose Enrique ^c   Hibiki, Takashi ^a   Ishii, Mamoru ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER TWO-PHASE FLOW; AREA CONCENTRATIONS; BUBBLE INTERFACES; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; DRIFT-FLUX MODEL; GAS-LIQUID TWO-PHASE FLOW; INLET FLOW; INNER DIAMETERS; INTERFACIAL AREA CONCENTRATIONS; LOCAL FLOWS; LOCAL MEASUREMENT; NEW CORRELATIONS; OUTER DIAMETERS; RADIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIAL POSITION; TEST SECTIONS; TURBULENT VELOCITY; VERTICAL ANNULUS;

FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PHASE INTERFACES; VOID FRACTION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 70349116507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ICONE16-48067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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