NIOBIUM-1% ZIRCONIUM, NATURAL-CIRCULATION, BOILING-POTASSIUM CORROSION LOOP TEST
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The primary goal of the work is to improve accuracy of hydrodynamic loads acting on the lifting surface of the kite turbine due to complex air-water-lifting body interaction in a low-order numerical model using high-fidelity numerical input. The result of this study will help the Participant better design control algorithms for the kite turbine so that the turbine can harvest more energy while maintaining stability of the platform as well as its reliability. The use of hydrodynamic coefficients/load components from computational fluid dynamic simulation will inform better inputs for a medium-fidelity dynamic model (specifically an OrcaFlex model) which is intended for use in rapid design iterations in the design process.
Nucleate boiling and condensed heat transfer mechanism of potassium
Cryogenic propellant venting under low pressure conditions - heat-transfer coefficients for two- phase, single component, solid-gas mixture flow in short, vertical tube
Phase change across interface of suddenly pressurized binary liquid-vapor system
Modified Runge-Kutta analysis of one-dimensional nozzle flow of gas-solid suspension, noting electrostatic effects
Gamma-ray densitometer technique for precise measurement of local or mean density in axially symmetric two phase flow with attention to cavitating mercury in venturi
Air-augmented rocket engine performance prediction requires detailed study of mixing region between reactive gas-particle rocket exhaust and confined airstream
Instrumentation for measuring pressure drop and void fractions in metal liquid-vapor flows
Phase change across interface of suddenly pressurized binary liquid-vapor system
Condensing characteristics of mercury vapor flowing in horizontal single tubes examined in crossflow-nitrogen-cooled and NaK-cooled condensors
Heat transfer coefficients over range of Reynolds numbers for solid-vapor mixture of parahydrogen discharge below triple point pressure
Mercury droplet size and distribution in glass condenser tube in one and zero gravity environments
Stationary phase approximation for two-channel atomic scattering system amplitude
Hall effect and electric resistance of zirconium carbide niobium carbide and tantalum carbide hafnium carbide alloys
Gravity and buoyancy effects on slip ratio, void fraction, flow model and boiling heat transfer
Discharge line fluid conditions in cryogenic container with self-pressurized draining, using Bernoulli, continuity and general energy equations and fluid properties
In many convective liquid-vapor phase change heat transfer engineering applications, cryogenic fluids are widely used in industrial processes, spacecraft and cryosurgery systems, and so on. For example, cryogens are usually used as liquid fuels such as liquid hydrogen and oxygen in the rocket industry, liquid nitrogen (LN2) and helium are frequently used to cool superconducting magnetic device for medical applications. In these systems, proper transport, handling, and storage of cryogenic fluids are of extreme importance. Among all the cryogenic transport processes performed in room temperatures, quenching, also termed chilldown, is a unavoidable initial, transient phase-change heat transfer process that brings the system down to the cryogenic condition. The Leidenfrost temperature or rewet temperature that signals the end of film boiling is practically considered the completion point of a quenching process. Therefore, rewet temperature has been considered the most important parameter for the engineering design of cryogenic thermal management systems. As most of the previous correlations for predicting the Leidenfrost temperature and the rewet temperature have been basically developed for water, they are shown to disagree with recent liquid nitrogen pipe chilldown experiments in upward and downward flow directions over a wide range of flow rates, pressures, and degrees of inlet subcooling. In addition to a complete review of the literature, two new correlations are presented in this work, one based on bubble growth and another based on the theoretical maximum limit of superheat. Each correlation performs well over the entire data set.