Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Table of Contents - Volume 147 - 1984  


Local measurements in two-phase liquid-metal magneto-fluid-mechanic flow

Paul  Gherson a1 and Paul S.  Lykoudis a1
a1 School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

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Abstract

Local measurements have been carried out in a mercury-nitrogen two-phase flow using the hot-film anemometric technique, in a cylindrical pipe with electrically insulated walls. The flow was turbulent (Re = 63000) and in the bubbly regime ([left angle bracket]α[right angle bracket] [approximate] 0.03). The maximum intensity of the magnetic field was 0.94 T. Processing of the hot-film signal provided in this medium, for the first time, simultaneous quantitative data for the local time-averaged velocity of the liquid-phase turbulent fluctuations, as well as local void fractions. These data were checked against those obtained, for the same conditions, using a double conductivity probe. The latter also provided information on the bubble velocity and average bubble size. Turbulence spectra were also measured.

(Published Online April 20 2006)
(Received November 24 1983)
(Revised April 14 1984)


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