Acceleration of the analytic function expansion nodal method by two-factor two-node nonlinear iteration

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 194-202

  Moon, Kap Suk ^a   Cho, Nam Zin ^a   Noh, Jae Man ^a,b   Hong, Ser Gi ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUELS; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OXIDES;

ANALYTIC FUNCTION EXPANSION NODAL METHOD; CORRECTION FACTORS; EQUIVALENCE THEORY; INTERFACE FLUXES; NONLINEAR CORRECTION FACTOR; TWO FACTOR TWO NODE NONLINEAR ITERATION;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 0032667168     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE99-A2059     Document Type: Article

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