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Natural convection driven heat transfer in fluids with strongly variable properties
A particle image velocimetry study
The High Performance Light Water Reactor (HPLWR) is one of the six innovative nuclear energy systems proposed by the Generation IV International Forum. The use of water at supercritical pressure as the coolant in the HPLWR allows a significative increase of the thermal efficiency
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Few-group cross sections used in nodal calculations derive from standard energy collapsing and spatial homogenization performed during preliminary lattice transport calculations, that implicitly assume an infinite array of identical fuel-assemblies. The infinite-medium neutron fl
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Heated or cooled fluids at supercritical pressure show large variations in thermophysical properties, such as the density, dynamic viscosity and molecular Prandtl number, which strongly influence turbulence characteristics. To investigate this, direct numerical simulations were p
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A parametric study on the stability performance of a prototypical natural circulation BWR is performed with the downscaled GENESIS facility. The GENESIS design is based on fluid-to-fluid modeling and includes an artificial void reactivity feedback (VRF) system for simulating t ...
From the beginning of BWR technology it was realized that a BWR can become unstable under particular circumstances caused by a feedback between the thermal-hydraulics and the neutronics. This instability can result in oscillations of the power and the flow rate, which is an unwan
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From the beginning of BWR technology it was realized that a BWR can become unstable under particular circumstances caused by a feedback between the thermal-hydraulics and the neutronics. This instability can result in oscillations of the power and the flow rate, which is an unwan
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From the beginning of BWR technology it was realized that a BWR can become unstable under particular circumstances caused by a feedback between the thermal-hydraulics and the neutronics. This instability can result in oscillations of the power and the flow rate, which is an unwan
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From the beginning of BWR technology it was realized that a BWR can become unstable under particular circumstances caused by a feedback between the thermal-hydraulics and the neutronics. This instability can result in oscillations of the power and the flow rate, which is an unwan
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Abstract: The feasibility of particle image velocimetry (PIV) in a thermally convective supercritical fluid was investigated. Hereto a Rayleigh–Bénard convection flow was studied at pressure and temperature above their critical values. The working fluid chosen was trifluoromethan
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Heat transfer to fluids at supercritical pressure is different from heat transfer at lower pressures due to strong variations of the thermophysical properties with the temperature. We present and analyze results of direct numerical simulations of heat transfer to turbulent CO2 at
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In many industrial processes that involve heat transfer and turbulent flows, thermo-physical properties can vary significantly due to pressure and (or) temperature variations.@en
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Rayleigh-Bénard convection of a supercritical fluid
PIV and heat transfer study
Fluids above the critical point are widely used in industry. Chemical, pharmaceutical, food industry and energy production are some examples. In the energy production sector they are mainly used as cooling fluids, because they allow to increase the thermal efficiency of the power
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Closing the Empathy Gap
Technology, Ethics, and the Other
This research investigates a phenomenon that is referred to as “the empathy gap” (Konrath, et.al, 2011). The empathy gap is the situation in which there is diminished ability in Perspective Taking (PT) and Emotional Concern (EC), caused by technology. The central objective of thi
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