Stereoscopic PIV measurements of near-wall flow in a tightly packed rod bundle with wire spacers Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • © 2017 Elsevier Inc. In this study, we experimentally investigated the flow field characteristics in the complex geometry of a tightly packed 61-rod bundle with wire spacers by employing matched-index-of-refraction (MIR) and stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (SPIV) techniques. SPIV measurements were performed on a cross-flow plane at Reynolds numbers of 500, 2500, and 6300, and the measurement area covered the interior and edge sub-channels that were located near the enclosure wall. The SPIV results showed that peaks of the velocity magnitude occurred in the edge sub-channel, indicating the wall effects on the flow symmetry in the cross-flow plane. Mean velocities at the central areas of the edge and interior sub-channels showed flat profiles for Re=500 and local peaks around 0.15

published proceedings

  • EXPERIMENTAL THERMAL AND FLUID SCIENCE

author list (cited authors)

  • Nguyen, T., Goth, N., Jones, P., Vaghetto, R., & Hassan, Y.

citation count

  • 43

complete list of authors

  • Nguyen, Thien||Goth, Nolan||Jones, Philip||Vaghetto, Rodolfo||Hassan, Yassin

publication date

  • April 2018