Code development for analysis of MHD pressure drop reduction in a liquid metal blanket using insulation technique based on a fully developed flow model

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-93

  Smolentsev, Sergey ^a   Morley, Neil ^a   Abdou, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Code development; Insulation technique; MHD pressure

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRACKS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INSULATION; LEAD COMPOUNDS; LIQUID METALS; PRESSURE DROP; SILICON CARBIDE;

CODE DEVELOPMENT; INSULATION TECHNIQUES; LIQUID METAL BLANKET; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS (MHD) PRESSURE;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 17644417109     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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