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Author:

Buschman III, Francis Xavier

Title:

Development of a Liquid Jet Model for Implementation in a 3-Dimensional Eulerian Analysis Tool

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

thermal-hydraulics
Two-phase flow
Liquid Jets
Condensation
COBRA-TF

File:

Download FX_Buschman_III_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lawrence Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
"David L Aumiller, Jr", Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Jun

Title:

Development of Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques for External Cooling of an Advanced Reactor Vessel

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CHF
two-phase flow
microporous coating
boiling heat transfer enhancement techniques
downward facing boiling
nucleate boiling

File:

Download JunYangDST.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Horacio Perez Blanco, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Dhushy Sathianathan, Committee Member
H Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Lane, Jeffrey William

Title:

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE ANNULAR FLOW MODELING PACKAGE FOR TWO-PHASE THREE-FIELD TRANSIENT SAFETY ANALYSIS CODES

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

safety analysis
annular flow
interfacial drag
entrainment
ccfl

File:

Download LANE_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lawrence E Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
"David L Aumiller, Jr", Committee Member
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Habte, Melaku

Title:

Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of Two Phase Closed thermosyphon Cooling System for New Cold Neutron Source Moderator of Breazeale Research Reactor at Penn State

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Dryout Temperature
Two-phase CFD Modeling
FLUENT
Cold Neutron Source
Moderator Cooling
Nucleate Boiling
CFD
Two-Phase Heat Transfer
Two-Phase Closed Thermosyphon
Cryogenic Temperatrure
Thermodynamics of Thermosyphon
Liquid Neon Cooling

File:

Download MelakuHabteDissertation2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member

Author:

Ergun, Sule

Title:

MODELING OF DISPERSED FLOW FILM BOILING WITH TWO FLOW, FIVE FIELD EULERIAN- EULERIAN APPROACH AND EFFECTS OF SPACER GRIDS ON HEAT TRANSFER

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

two phase flow modeling
dispersed flow film boiling
spacer grids
COBRA-TF

File:

Download Sule_Ergun_PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lawrence E Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Talley, Justin D

Title:

Interfacial Area Transport Equation for Vertical and Horizontal Bubbly Flows and its Application to the TRACE Code

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

horizontal two-phase flow
interfacial area transport equation
four-sensor conductivity probe
TRACE

File:

Download Talley_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Seungjin Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member
John R Buchanan Jr, Special Member