High-fidelity PIV measurement of cross flow in 5× 5 rod bundle with mixing vane grids

W Qu, J Xiong, S Chen, X Cheng - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2019 - Elsevier
In order to achieve high-fidelity PIV measurement for cross flow in rod bundles, the
measurement approach with the two-dimensional (2D) PIV has been optimized …

Experimental study of cross flow and lateral pressure drop in a 5× 5 rod bundle with mixing vane spacer grid

W Qu, Z Wang, J Xiong, X Cheng - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2019 - Elsevier
Cross flow and lateral pressure drop downstream a split-type mixing vane spacer grid in a
5× 5 rod bundle were experimentally measured by particle image velocimetry (PIV) and …

Computational and experimental analysis of gas/liquid two-phase flow in rod bundles with mixing-vane spacer grids

BM Waite, HM Prasser, MZ Podowski - Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2020 - Elsevier
The existing evidence clearly shows that the physical phenomena governing gas/liquid two-
phase flows are quite complicated even in the case of smooth conduits and simple …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of RANS models and Large Eddy simulation for predicting crossflow induced by mixing vanes in rod bundle

F Wiltschko, W Qu, J Xiong - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The crossflow is the key phenomenon in turbulent flow inside rod bundles. In order to
establish confidence on application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate the …

[引用][C] PIV/PTV Measurements of Lateral Velocity Components in a 5× 5 PWR Bundle with Mixing Vanes

C Powell, CE Estrada-Perez, T Nguyen, YA Hassan - Transactions