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DOI: https://doi.org/10.53747/jnst.v10i3.8
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Vol. 10 No. 3 (2020)
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Tuan, D. A., Nam, P. T., & Oanh, N. T. (2020). Experimental investigation of hydrodynamic phenomena in vertical-upward adiabatic two-phase flow conditions. Nuclear Science and Technology, 10(3), 49-59. https://doi.org/10.53747/jnst.v10i3.8

Experimental investigation of hydrodynamic phenomena in vertical-upward adiabatic two-phase flow conditions

Dinh Anh Tuan1, Pham Tuan Nam1, Nguyen Tu Oanh1
1 Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology, Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute, 179 Hoang Quoc Viet, Ha Noi

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Abstract

In order to investigate hydrodynamic phenomena in two-phase flow conditions in nuclear safety analysis, a series of two-phase flow experiments were conducted using a single flow channel in which air and water were simultaneously injected into the test section. The experiments under atmospheric pressure conditions were carried out with the water velocity and the air velocity covering the ranges from 0.2 to 1.5 m/s and 0.05 to 0.2 m/s, respectively. The technique of two-sensor conductivity probe was used for the measurement of bubble parameters. The experimental results presented and analyzed in this study are the local time-averaged void fraction and bubble velocities at three axial positions L/D = 14.4, 51.2 and 71.3.

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Two phase flow regime, Two phase flow experiment, Conductivity probe method

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