On Coherent Structures, Flow-Induced Vibrations, and Migratory Flow: In Liquid Metal Nuclear Reactors

Flows in rod bundles are common to many industrial applications such as heat exchangers or some types of nuclear reactors. The core of many classes of nuclear reactors can be easily sketched as a bundle of rods, the fuel pins, inmmersed in an axial ow of coolant that removes the heat produced by the fission reaction. Coupling this geometry to an...

Experimental investigation on the influence of gap vortex streets on fluid-structure interactions in hexagonal bundle geometries

Gap vortex streets characterise many industrial applications involving rod bundle flows, such as heat exchangers and nuclear reactors. These structures, known as gap vortex streets, may excite the structural components of the bundle to resonance, leading to fretting and fatigue. This work aims to measure these coherent structures and the...