Some comments on the behavior of the RELAP5 numerical scheme at very small time steps

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 306-311

  Tiselj, Iztok ^a   Černe, Gregor ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HEAT TRANSFER; INTEGRATION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE RELAP; STIFF INTERFACE EXCHANGE TERMS;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 0033874547     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE134-306     Document Type: Article

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