Advanced Thermal-Hydraulics Laboratory

About

AdvanTH : Advanced Thermal-Hydraulics Laboratory


AdvanTH lab strives to facilitate high-fidelity simulation of two-phase flow/heat transfer through scientific experiments. To achieve the goal, we have the following missions


  • Reinforce advanced optical techniques for high-resolution thermal-hydraulic experiments

  • Develop groundbreaking diagnostics and preform advanced scientific experiments for superior understanding and modeling of two-phase flow and heat transfer

  • Enhance reliability of computational multiphase fluid dynamics (CMFD) codes for complex two-phase safety problems


AdvanTH lab includes all required services that are fully available to the projects, including:

  • Source of Cold, De-Ionized Water System

  • Compressed Air and Nitrogen

  • Low/High Voltage AC/DC Power Supplies

Instrumentation

The state-of-the-art instrumentation for flow and heat transfer measurements has been acquired in the past years and is continuing to expand and grow. The laboratory is equipped with:


  • Diode laser used as source of illumination for flow visualization and measurements

  • He-Ne laser used as source of interferometry for thin film measurements

  • Particle Image Velocimetry system with two high speed cameras

  • Mid-wave and short-wave high-speed infrared cameras for temperature measurement with high spatial and temporal resolutions

Computation Tools

Various thermal-Hydraulic computer codes are in use in our laboratory. Our expertise covers a wide range of system-level codes and Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) codes.


  • System scale: MARS-KS, SPACE, MELCOR

  • Component scale: CUPID

  • Meso scale: CFX, FLUENT, Star-ccm+, OpenFOAM

  • Micro scale: PSI-Boil