Molten salt reactors (MSRs) are one type of GEN-IV advanced that adopt melt mixtures heavy metal elements and molten as both fuel coolant. The liquid allows MSRs to perform online refueling, reprocessing, helium bubbling. utilization, safety, economics can be enhanced, while some new physical mechanisms phenomena emerge simultaneously, which would significantly complicate the numerical simulati...

sewerage projects. He was well versed in hydraulics. He could build a dam or reservoir, and lay pipes and sewers. He knew a little bit of plumbing, but was not so sure of his ground in the installation of pumps and engines. He felt equally competent to construct irrigation works, water-works, or land drainage works, because the applications of hydraulics were involved in all these. As regards w...

Pothole formation and development may be influenced by joint sets and other heterogeneities within bedrock, as well as by hydraulics. Previous research indicates that most potholes found in rivers of the mountainous Spanish Central System exhibit preferred orientations associated with dominant joints and correlate more strongly with variations in substrate resistance than with hydraulics. Weath...

In order to predict the water-vapor two-phase flow dynamics in a fuel bundle of an advanced light-water reactor, large-scale numerical simulations were performed using a highly parallel-vector supercomputer, the earth simulator. Although conventional analysis methods such as subchannel codes and system analysis codes need composition equations based on the experimental data, it is difficult to ...

Research in plant hydraulics has provided important insights into plant responses to drought and species absolute drought tolerance. However, our ability to predict when plants will die from hydraulic failure under extreme drought is limited by a lack of knowledge with regards to the dynamics of plant desiccation following stomatal closure. Thus, we develop a simple hydraulics model based on br...

This paper discusses the possibility to use low-cost on/off valves instead of servo valves even in demanding servo applications. Different on/off control techniques are first reviewed and analyzed. Then the basic principles of suggested Digital Hydraulics technology are introduced and some tracking control results are presented. Results show that energy efficient and high-quality position and v...

This paper collects advances in the research project on history and philosophy of sciences physics teaching,focused hydraulics. The question regarding social needs, inequality, vulnerability during first quarter 21st century is; What to teach today? And for what purpose are hydraulics? document recognizes historical importance experimental activity science, associated phenomenology, conceptual ...