Ongoing activities within the CMR include small and intermediate scale experimental investigations, mathematical model development and application, and stochastic analysis of flow and transport phenomena. One of those regimes is called annular flow regime in which gas is flowing in core and liquid surrounding the core and flowing as film. Graham Wallis's career has focused on the problem of reducing multiphase fluid behavior to a series of equations that will describe the phenomena as adequately as did the basic single-phase flow equations that were derived in the nineteenth century. Professor G.F. Hewitt. Here, the system could be a flow channel, a piece of process equipment or the environment.
Nuclear power is one of the key options for meeting future energy needs.
New and innovative technologies that can reduce the operating costs of today's plants are being explored and developed. The goal of this target is to develop investment-ready nuclear energy options that have the potential for economic implementation around the turn of the century. The MFI MultiPhase Meters are compact, full-bore meters that are used to measure the amount of oil, water and gas coming from wells or flowing pipes. The Multiphase Flow Section in the Mechanical and Fluids Engineering Division performs applied research for the oil and gas production industries.