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Nuclear Dirigo
On April 22, 1959, Rear Admiral George J. King, superintendent of the Maine Maritime Academy, announced that following the completion of the 1960 training cruise, cadets would begin the study of nuclear engineering. Courses at that time included radiation physics, reactor control and instrumentation, reactor theory and engineering, thermodynamics, shielding, core design, reactor maintenance, and nuclear aspects.
Hang Liu, Liang-ming Pan, Wen-xiong Zhou, Quan-yao Ren (Chongqing Univ/Ministry of Education)
Proceedings | Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2018 | Orlando, FL, November 11-15, 2018 | Pages 961-964
For the modeling of the one-dimensional interfacial area transport equation for adiabatic bubbly flow in vertical rod bundles, existing typical sink and source terms were reviewed. Based on the reviewed interactive mechanism of bubbles and turbulent eddies, newly interfacial area transport model with considering the effect of spacer grids has been proposed and evaluated by the experimental data with the mean relative error of 19.9% .
