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The American Nuclear Society is now accepting applications for knowledge managers to work during the 2024 Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo. This year’s UWC, “Nuclear Momentum: Advancing Our Clean Energy Future,” will be held August 4–7, 2024, at the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort on Marco Island, Fla.=
Jon D. McWhirter, Michael E. Crawford, Dale E. Klein
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 187-197
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A63
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Experimental data are presented for the pressure drop of a flowing conducting fluid within a packed bed of spheres through a transverse magnetic field. Pertinent background information is presented about flows in porous media followed by relevant details of the experiment apparatus and equipment. The data are presented and discussed and then compared with the predictions from the previously developed analytical model. It is found that good agreement exists between the data when plotted in dimensionless form. As with the other equations for fluid flow in porous media, the analytical forms specify behavior to within an experimentally determined constant. A new constant, the Sanders constant, contained within the equation for the resistance ratio, is proposed. The experiment data are compared with the analytical model, and the best value of the Sanders constant is estimated.