Research Areas

• Miniaturized liquid film sensors
• Miniaturized thermoresistive temperature sensor arrays
• Neutron imaging
• Ultrasonic gas composition measurement
• Gas anemomenter gauges for very low velocities
• Thermal mesh sensors

Characterization of thermal fluctuations and transients causing fatigue in structures

• Mixing experiments in a T-junction (GEMIX test facility at PSI)
• Thermal impact on T-junctions in case of low velocities in the side branch
• Pressurized Thermal Shock (PST)

Mixing and two-phase flow in fuel rod bundles

• Annular flow in subchannels of LWR fuel elements
• Spacer effect on cross-mixing and two-phase flow structure in a PWR fuel rod bundle

Hydrogen accumulation and dispersion in containments

• MiniPanda: A small-scale test facility to study hydrogen transport in containments
• Containment thermal hydraulics research at PSI

Fundamental two-phase flow studies

• Large Eddy Simulations coupled with Interface Tracking (at PSI)
• Plunging jets

Thermal hydraulics of solar collectors

• Degassing of solar collector systems
• Stagnation behavior of solar collector systems