Design, Fabrication, Performance Testing, and Modeling of Diffusion Bonded Compact Heat Exchangers in a High-Temperature Helium Test Facility

ii Dedication iv Acknowledgments v Vita vii List of Tables xiii List of Figures xiv Chapter 1 : Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation 1 1.2 Intermediate Heat Exchanger 3 1.3 Research Objectives 5 1.4 Previous Work 7 1.5 Dissertation Organization 11 References for Chapter 1 13 Chapter 2 : High-Temperature Helium Test Facility and Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers 15

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