Research Topics

This laboratory is equipped with research facilities and instrumentation which enables to conduct experimental studies in a wide range of topics related to liquid metal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow phenomena, MHD power generation, heat transfer in liquid metal flows, confinement materials corrosion in contact with liquid metals at high temperatures, two-phase flows, boiling of volatile liquids in contact with a hot liquid metal, anisotropic MHD turbulence, ?Burning? of nuclear waste.

 
 
 
Main facilities

Mercury facility for a variety of studies of flow phenomena and turbulence.
A facility for simulating of boiling with direct contact heat exchange.
Sodium-potassium facility for flow, heat transfer and turbulence phenomena in longitudinal magnetic fields.
Etgar-3 facility with circulation of 10 tons of Lead-Bismuth at 170o C with steam injection.
Ofra facility with circulation of lead and Lead-Bismuth up to 480oC.
 

Research Collaboration

CERN Laboratory of the European Community
Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Co.
University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
Institute of Physics of Latvian University
Technical University of Petersburg
High Temperature Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute de Mecanique, Grenoble
Massachusetts Institute of technology
 

Key Personnel

B. Mikhailovich, Ph.D.
A. Kapusta, Ph.D.
A. Eidelman, Ph.D.