On heat transfer characteristics of real and simulant melt pool experiments

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 169, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 151-164

  Dinh, T N ^a   Nourgaliev, R R ^a   Sehgal, B R ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE MELTDOWN; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRESSURE VESSELS; TURBULENCE;

IN VESSEL CORE MELT RETENTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS;

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0031166484     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0029-5493(96)01283-6     Document Type: Article

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