Natural convection for in-vessel retention at prototypic Rayleigh numbers

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Theofanous, T G ^a   Angelini, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CORRELATION METHODS; NATURAL CONVECTION;

IN-VESSEL RETENTION (IVR); RAYLEIGH NUMBERS;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0034250929     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(00)00239-9     Document Type: Article

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