Advanced Thermal-Hydraulics Research Lab.
The Advanced Thermal-Hydraulic Research Laboratory strive to facilitate high-fidelity simulation of two-phase flow/heat transfer through scientific experiments. To achieve the goal, we have the following missions:
• Develop groundbreaking diagnostics and preform advanced scientific experiments for superior understanding and modeling of two-phase flow and heat transfer
• Enhnace reliability of compurational multiphase fluid dynamics (CMFD) codes for complex two-phase safety problems
The Laboratory
The Advanced Thermal-Hydraulic Research Laboratory includes all required services that are fully available to the projects, including:
• Source of Cold, De-Ionized Water System
• Compressed Air and Nitrogen
• Low/High Voltage AC/DC Power Supplies
Instrumentation
The state-of-the-art instrumentation for flow and heat transfer measurements has been acquired in the past years and is continuing to expand and grow. The laboratory is equipped with:
• Diode laser used as source of illumination for flow visualization and measurements
• He-Ne laser used as source of interferometry for thin film measurements
• Particle Image Velocimetry system with two high speed cameras
• Mid-wave and short-wave high-speed infrared cameras for temperature measurement with high spatial and temporal resolutions
Computational Tools and Software
Thermal-Hydraulic computer codes are in use in our laboratory. Our expertise cover a wide range of system-level codes and Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) codes.
System and Subchannel Codes:
• MARS-KS
• SPACE
• MATRA
Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Codes:
• ANSYS CFS and FLUENT
• CD-ADAPCO Star-ccm+
• OpenFOAM