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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"experimental facility"”.
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Design and analysis of an experimental facility for inlet vortex investigation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1982.
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An experimental facility for the study of unsteady flow in turbopumps
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989.
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An experimental facility for microchannel research and evaporating R134a in microchannel tube
… most important parameters to be measured in an experimental facility. A featured design of heat transfer behavior and pressure drop testing facility for both evaporating and condensing refrigerant in microchannel tubes are made and introduced in this thesis. Details of the installing of the test …
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1D and 3D simulation of a water cooled reactor cavity cooling system experimental facility
… design and simulation code is to build an experimental facility based on a prototype. In many cases scale models are constructed of prototype designs. The facility constructed at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) is an example of a scale model of an RCCS. The facility represents a 5° …
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Commissioning of experimental facility for oil circulation rate measurements in a vapor compression system
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Analysis of aero-elastic forces in labyrinth seals and the design of an experimental facility to measure them
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Assessment of an Innovative Experimental Facility for Testing Diffusing Serpentine Inlets with Large Amounts of Boundary Layer Ingestion
An innovative experimental facility was developed for testing flush-mounted, diffusing serpentine inlets intended for use on blended-wing-body aircraft. The static ground test facility was able to simulate the boundary layer profile expected to be ingested by inlets mounted on the aft sections of …
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Neutronic Performance and Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of the MIT Reactor Fission Converter Experimental Facility Using High-Density U-10Mo Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Elements
… a general-use engineering and materials testing facility. The new FC-based experimental facility has roughly one cubic meter of empty space downstream intended to contain large experiments, called the m³. This work is a safety and performance study aimed at quantifying the impact of modifying the …
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Investigation of the ability of RELAP5/MOD3 to model natural circulation of high pressure SF6 in the Westinghouse 1/7 scale PWR experimental facility
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Engineering, 1992
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Adiabatic Air-Water Two Phase Flow Experimental Facilities Design, Construction and Operation
"Experimental studies are conducted to predict the phenomenon(s) and to describe some kind of causation. The design of experiment and the experimental facility is a rigorous method. A well designed, manufactured and operated experimental facility is robust under criticism. Thermal hydraulic …
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Models of the auditory threshold
… of a 2.I.F.C. automatic threshold seeking experimental facility are then outlined. This is followed by the description of an experiment incorporating the hardware threshold model to assess the feasibility of the experimental facility. Details of subjective tests with the experimental …
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The influence of gravity on pressure drop and heat transfer in flow boiling
… systems for use in manned spacecraft. An experimental facility has been fabricated in which heat transfer, pressure drop, and vapor volume fraction in flow boiling of R11 can be studied in vertical upflow, vertical downflow, and horizontal flow configurations.
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Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of Active Thermal Control of Battery Modules
… electric vehicle (HEVs). This work describes experimental and numerical study of thermal management of battery module consisting of cylindrical Li-ion cells, with an emphasis on the use of active control to achieve optimal cooling performance with minimal parasitic power consumption. The major …
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Membrane based dehumidification and evaporative cooling using wire mesh media
… There were six wire mesh membranes tested in an experimental facility. The wire mesh membranes vary with respect to percent open area, wire diameter, pore size and material. Two non-permeable, solid membranes were also tested in the facility and compared with the wire mesh membranes. The test …
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Spin dynamics of space stations under transient and steady-state excitations and stabilizing responses
… distribution are discussed. A description of an experimental facility capable of simulating the excitation considered in the theoretical analysis and of determining and recording the resultant station lotion is also included.
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Particle Image Velocimetry of Fluid Flow in an 85-Pin Hexagonal Rod Bundle with Spacer Grids for a Gas-Cooled Fast Modular Reactor
… the baseline core configuration of the FMR. The experimental thermal-hydraulic investigation consisted of the axial and radial flow field characteristics in the hexagonal fuel rod bundle composed of 84 fuel rods, a central control rod, and spacer grids at a Reynolds number of 12,000. The …
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Wave boundary layer hydrodynamics and cross-shore sediment transport in the surf zone
… water tunnels (OWTs, a commonly used type of experimental facility) and in the sea. This thesis presents a simple conceptual model of the nearshore boundary layer mechanisms responsible for sediment transport. Bed shear stresses are predicted by using a time-varying friction factor. Bedload …
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Design and Benchmarking of a Combustor Simulator Relevant to Gas Turbine Engines
An experimental facility was designed and benchmarked that could simulate the non-uniformities in the flow and thermal fields exiting real gas-turbine combustors. The design of the combustor simulator required analyses of the flow paths within a real combustor in a gas turbine engine. Modifications …
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Study of Steady and Pulsating Impinging Jets
An experimental investigation on the fluid mechanics of steady and pulsed impinging jets is presented in this thesis. An experimental facility was custom-builtin order to generate axisymmetric and incompressible impinging jets (pulsed and steady). In order to ensure that the velocity profiles at …
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Investigation into the design and optimisation of multideck refrigerated display cases
… the course of the project, a custom designed experimental facility was constructed, capable of testing the display case according to the relevant test standards. Using this facility, experimental validation was carried on a number of the design modifications to assess the actual refrigeration …
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