A new approach to designing reduced scale thermal-hydraulic experiments

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 229, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 205-212

  Lapa, Celso M F ^a   De Sampaio, Paulo A B ^a   Pereira, Cláudio M N A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA NUCLEAR   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HYDRAULICS; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

REAL SCALE TESTING; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC EXPERIMENTS;

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842418712     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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