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As global interest in nuclear energy surges, the United States must remain at the forefront of research and development to ensure national energy security, advance nuclear technologies, and promote international cooperation on safety and nonproliferation. A crucial step in achieving this is analyzing how funding and resources are allocated to better understand how to direct future research and development. The Department of Energy has spearheaded this effort by funding hundreds of research projects across the country through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). This initiative has empowered dozens of universities to collaborate toward a nuclear-friendly future.
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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 133 | Number 1 | September 1999 | Pages 92-105
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE99-A2075
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Air-water two-phase flows around a rectangular cylinder located in vertical upward flows are analyzed by an incompressible two-fluid model using the two-dimensional upstream finite element method proposed earlier. The Reynolds number, based on the cross-stream width of the cylinder and the free-stream velocity of the liquid phase, is 2.0 x 104, and the volumetric fraction of the gas phase upstream of the cylinder g0 ranges from 0 to 0.075. Three kinds of cylinders with the thickness-to-width ratios D/B of 0.5, 1, and 1.5 are employed. The calculated flows exhibit unsteady behavior with the von Kármán vortices shedding from the cylinder into the wake at every g0 value. The volumetric fraction of the gas phase is higher in the wake and achieves maximum value at the center of the vortices, where the pressure reaches its minimum value. The flow field and the vortex-shedding frequency are greatly affected not only by the g0 value but also by the D/B ratio.