Accounting for strong localized heterogeneities and local transport effect in core calculation

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 82-88

  Ruggieri, J M ^a   Boyer, R ^a,b   Doriath, J Y ^c   Finck, P J ^c  

^a Centre d'Etude de Cadarache   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c SPRC Bat230   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CORE CALCULATION; LOCAL TRANSPORT EFFECT; LOCALIZED HETEROGENEITIES; MESH REFINEMENT; SHUTDOWN RODS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 0030246995     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE96-A24225     Document Type: Article

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