Next Generation Thermal Hydraulic Test Loop
Abbreviation
NextGenTH
Infrastructure description
The Next Generation Thermal Hydraulic Test Loop is a multifunctional facility designed to reproduce a wide range of heat transfer and fluid flow (thermal-hydraulic) phenomena relevant to light water moderated nuclear reactors. The main scientific output of the new facility will be (1) capability to locally discern interpret and model the 2D/3D dynamic structure of two-phase (water-steam) flow under a broad variety of conditions relevant to safety and availability of nuclear power plants and (2) large-scale modelling of system-wide behavior in multiple genometrics representative of various nuclear heat transport systems (modularity: interchangeable components typical to nuclear systems).
Scientific description
Start of activity
2018
End of activity
2038
Responsible organisation
LUT University
Keywords
heat transfer and fluid flow, modular heat transfer systems, multidimensional flow measurement, nuclear reactor safety, nuclear thermal hydraulics, two-phase flow
Research infrastructure services
Thermal hydraulics experiment platform
Other information
Fields of science
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
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urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016111644