FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER IN FUEL ELEMENT GEOMETRIES II. Experimental investigation of velocity distribution and flow resistance in a triangular array of parallel rods

摘要

In this report an experimental study is described of velocity distribution and flow resistance in a geometrical configuration simu-lating the infinite triangular array of parallel rods. A main purpose of this study was to gain information concerning the validity of a fluid flow and heat transfer analysis presented in a previous report [1] One further wanted to investigate whether the velocity distribution nor¬mal to the rod surface could be described in terms of a "universal" law.