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Two-phase reduced gravity experiments for a space reactor design
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Antoniak, Zenen I. |
| Copyright Year | 1987 |
| Description | Future space missions researchers envision using large nuclear reactors with either a single or a two-phase alkali-metal working fluid. The design and analysis of such reactors require state-of-the-art computer codes that can properly treat alkali-metal flow and heat transfer in a reduced-gravity environment. New flow regime maps, models, and correlations are required if the codes are to be successfully applied to reduced-gravity flow and heat transfer. General plans are put forth for the reduced-gravity experiments which will have to be performed, at NASA facilities, with benign fluids. Data from the reduced-gravity experiments with innocuous fluids are to be combined with normal gravity data from two-phase alkali-metal experiments. Because these reduced-gravity experiments will be very basic, and will employ small test loops of simple geometry, a large measure of commonality exists between them and experiments planned by other organizations. It is recommended that a committee be formed to coordinate all ongoing and planned reduced gravity flow experiments. |
| File Size | 297569 |
| Page Count | 8 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19870011721 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1rg0mw57 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1987-04-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Materials Processing Two Phase Flow Aerospace Environments Coding Alkali Metals Space Commercialization Working Fluids Space Flight Design Analysis Microgravity Heat Transfer Space Power Reactors Computer Programs Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
