Heat transfer from a totally blocked fuel subassembly of a liquid metal fast breeder reactor: II. Numerical simulation

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 235, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 897-912

  Suresh, Ch S Y ^a   Sundararajan, T ^a   Venkateshan, S P ^a   Das, Sarit K ^a   Thansekhar, M R ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING LIQUIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; NUCLEAR FUELS; POWER GENERATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

LIQUID METAL FAST BREEDER REACTORS (LMFBR); TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL ANISOTROPY; WALL TEMPERATURE;

LIQUID METALS;

EID: 12244301224     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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