Physical mechanism of core-wide and local instabilities at the Forsmark-1 BWR

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 91-105

  Analytis, G Th ^a   Hennig, D ^a   Karlsson, J K H ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b GSE Power Systems AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REACTOR CORES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

INLET LOSS COEFFICIENTS;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0034819123     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(00)00371-X     Document Type: Article

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