Development of BWR regional instability model and verification based on Ringhals 1 test

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 1403-1427

  Hotta, Akitoshi ^a   Suzawa, Yojiro ^a   Takeuchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a Toden Software Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE DROP;

LOW POWER RANGE MONITOR (LPRM); SOFTWARE PACKAGE ACCORD; SOFTWARE PACKAGE LAPUR;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0031281647     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4549(97)00004-2     Document Type: Article

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