Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power: Recent submissions
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Influence of Transversal Acoustic Excitation of the Burner Approach Flow on the Flame Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Modern large gas turbines for power generation have multiple burners, which are distributed around the circumference of the engine and which generate flames in combustors of either annular or ... -
Comparison of Countercurrent Flow Limitation Experiments Performed in Two Different Models of the Hot Leg of a Pressurized Water Reactor With Rectangular Cross Section
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In order to investigate the two-phase flow behavior during countercurrent flow limitation in the hot leg of a pressurized water reactor, two test models were built: one at the Kobe University ... -
Design and Construction of IFMIF/EVEDA Lithium Test Loop
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is a D+–Li neutron source aimed at producing an intense high energy neutron flux (2 MW/m2) for testing candidate fusion reactor ... -
Gas Flow Simulations in Randomly Distributed Pebbles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In this paper, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) gas flow simulations are carried out for the pebble bed reactor. In CFD calculations, geometry modeling and physical modeling are crucial to ... -
Computational Analysis of Downcomer Boiling Phenomena Using a Component Thermal Hydraulic Analysis Code, CUPID
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)For the analysis of transient two-phase flows in nuclear reactor components such as a reactor vessel, a steam generator, and a containment, KAERI has developed a three-dimensional thermal hydraulic ... -
Measurement of Wavy Surface Oscillations on Liquid Metal Lithium Jet for IFMIF Target
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) has been conceived as a high-flux 14 MeV neutron source for testing candidate fusion reactor materials. In the current design, ... -
CANDU Reactor Space-Time Kinetic Model for Load Following Studies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)This paper presents the development of a three-dimensional space-time neutronic kinetic model of a Canadian deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactor using a modal method. In this method, the reactor ... -
Experimental Comparisons of 3D Reconstructed Pin-Power Distributions in Full-Scale BWR Fuel Assemblies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In this paper, reconstructed local fission rates obtained with the two-group nodal diffusion program PRESTO-2 , used at the Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL) in Switzerland, are compared with ... -
Transfer Function Modeling of Zero-Power Dynamics of Circulating Fuel Reactors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)In this paper, the zero-power behavior of circulating fuel reactors (CFRs) has been investigated by means of a zero-dimensional neutron kinetics model that provides a simplified but useful ... -
Gamma-Ray Spectrum Analysis of Chang’E-1 for Lunar Detection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Gamma-ray spectrum analysis was essential for radioactive environmental monitoring, and it had been widely used in many areas of nuclear engineering. However, for the low-energy region of gamma-ray ... -
Extraction of Actinides and Lanthanides by Supercritical Fluid
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Reprocessing of used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste management are important issues for the sustainable development of nuclear energy. It is necessary to develop novel nuclear waste treatment ... -
Investigation of the Beltline Welding Seam and Base Metal of the Greifswald WWER-440 Unit 1 Reactor Pressure Vessel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The investigation of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) materials from decommissioned nuclear power plants (NPPs) offers the unique opportunity to scrutinize the irradiation behavior under real conditions. ... -
Photographic Study on Two-Phase Flow Patterns of Water in a Single-Side Heated Narrow Rectangular Channel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Visualized experimental observation on flow patterns during flow boiling of water under single-side heated and fluid-inlet subcooled conditions in a vertical narrow rectangular channel with the ... -
High Temperature Aging and Corrosion Study on Alloy 617 and Alloy 230
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The very high temperature gas-cooled reactor (VHTR), with dual capacities of highly efficient electricity generation and thermochemical production of hydrogen, is considered as one of the most ... -
Study of Interfacial Friction Force for Bubble Flows in a 2×1 Rod Channel Simplifying BWR
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Most of the recent subchannel analysis codes are based on a multifluid model, and an accurate evaluation of the constitutive equations in the model is essential. In order to get an accurate ... -
Subcooled Water Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in a Short SUS304-Tube With Twisted-Tape Insert
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The subcooled boiling heat transfer and the steady-state critical heat fluxes (CHFs) in a short SUS304-tube with twisted-tape insert are systematically measured for mass velocities (G=4016–13,850 ... -
Thermodynamic Optimization of Advanced Steam Power Plants Retrofitted for Oxy-Coal Combustion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Thermodynamic optimization of power plants based on supercritical (SupC) and ultrasupercritical (USC) steam parameters is reported in this article. The objective is to compute the maximum attainable ... -
A Consolidated Model for the Turbine Operation of Centrifugal Pumps
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)A consolidated model for the turbine operation of centrifugal pumps comprising accurate prediction, optimum selection, and rigorous evaluation has been the primary need and the most challenging ... -
An Investigation of Air-Cooled Steam Condenser Performance Under Windy Conditions Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)The development of an efficient and reliable method of evaluating the performance of an air-cooled steam condenser (ACC) under windy conditions using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is presented. ... -
Dynamics Simulations of a Graphite Block Under Longitudinal Impact
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)Graphite blocks are important core components of the high temperature gas-cooled reactor. As these blocks are simply stacked in array, collisions among neighboring components may occur during ...