The three-level scaling approach with application to the Purdue University Multi-Dimensional Integral Test Assembly (PUMA)

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 186, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 177-211

  Ishii, M ^a   Revankar, S T ^a   Leonardi, T ^a   Dowlati, R ^a   Bertodano, M L ^a   Babelli, I ^a,c   Wang, W ^a   Pokharna, H ^a   Ransom, V H ^a   Viskanta, R ^a   Han, J T ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MASS TRANSFER; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; TEST FACILITIES;

THREE LEVEL SCALING METHOD;

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032203588     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(98)00222-2     Document Type: Article

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