Abstract
Steam-water two phase flow is present in normal operating condition in the horizontal part of the pressurizer spray pipe of PWR. High cycle fatigue crack generation is a concern under the conditions of such thermally laminar two phase flow, wherein temperature fluctuation under of steam-water interface is caused by internal gravity waves in thermal stratified flow. In this study the effect of non-condensable gas to the temperature fluctuation of thermal stratified flow was investigated by the experiments using visualization test section of rectangular pipe. As a result, temperature distribution and fluctuation were roughly divided into three patterns by the amount of the non-condensable gas.
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