Scope of the Project

      The purpose of this design project is to design and build a model of an existing experiment. The model will simulate Two-Phase flow in a corridor type setting. The original experiment is studying the flow of liquid helium through a corridor.  The helium is used to cool large super-conducting magnets.  Unfortunately, the liquid helium is so cold that the instant it touches the magnet it vaporizes.  Therefore, the vaporized helium and liquid helium both flow down the corridor at the same time.  This phenomenon is simulated in the experiment at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL).  Unfortunately, due to the extreme cold of the fluid it has to be contained in many layers of insulation to keep it cold enough to stay along the vapor-liquid transition line.  In order to see how the flow reacts in the corridor, it was proposed that a team of students build a mockup of the experiment that can be seen.  The helium is to be replaced with water to remove the problem of keeping the fluid cold.  There will have to be calculations of the properties for helium and water such that the mockup effectively simulates the original experiment.