Pressure Drop Across a Restriction of Annular Geometry

Author

Farshid Yarizadeh, University of Central Florida

Keywords

Heat Transmission, Two phase flow, Annular restriction geometry, Pressure drop measurement, Loss coefficient correlations, Air-water two-phase mixtures, Steam generator annulus

Abstract

This report presents experimental results for the pressure drop across a restriction of annular geometry used in a typical pressurized water reactor steam generator. The pressure drops were obtained for air, water, and the corresponding two-phase mixtures.

The loss coefficients associated with these pressure drops were experimentally determined and empirical relations correlating the results were developed.

The tests were performed at atmospheric conditions (atmospheric temperature and pressure), and the two-phase flow mass velocity ranged from 236 to 711 1bm/s-ft².

Notes

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Graduation Date

1982

Advisor

Hosler, E. Ramon

Degree

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Engineering

Format

PDF

Pages

94 pages

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

Identifier

DP0013716

Subjects

Two-phase flow--Experiments; Two-phase flow--Measurement; Nuclear reactors--Fluid dynamics--Testing; Nuclear reactors--Cooling--Experiments; Pressurized water reactors--Testing

STARS Citation

Yarizadeh, Farshid, "Pressure Drop Across a Restriction of Annular Geometry" (1982). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 665.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/rtd/665

Contributor (Linked data)

E. Ramon Hosler (Q58908300)

University of Central Florida. College of Engineering [VIAF]

University of Central Florida. College of Engineering [LC]

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