Tomographic imaging of two-phase flow
Tomographic imaging of two-phase flow
Hampel, U.; Barthel, F.; Bieberle, A.; Bieberle, M.; Boden, S.; Franz, R.; Neumann-Kipping, M.; Tas-Köhler, S.
Two-phase flow is to be found in many situations of nuclear reactor operation and accident sequences. Examples are loss of coolant accidents and boiling in fuel assemblies. Hence, mod-elling of two-phase flow is a primary concern in nuclear safety research. Model development and code validation frequently require experimental data, preferably taken under plant ther-mal-hydraulic conditions. Tomographic imaging techniques provide a way to analyze two-phase flow with high spatial resolution. In this paper we introduce recent developments in X-ray tomography and its application to three different problems related to nuclear safety.
Keywords: two-phase flow; core thermal hydraulics; tomography; steam condensation; boiling
Involved research facilities
- TOPFLOW Facility
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International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology 2(2020), 86-92
Online First (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.jandt.2020.08.002
ISSN: 2468-6050
Cited 5 times in Scopus
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