Assessment study of the coupled code RELAP5/PARCS against the Peach Bottom BWR turbine trip test

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 235, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1727-1736

  Bousbia Salah, Anis ^a   Galassi, Giorgio M ^a   D'Auria, Francesco ^a   Končar, Boštjan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUSSELT NUMBER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBINES;

BEST ESTIMATES (BE); KINETIC MODELS; NEUTRONICS; TURBINE STOP VALVES (TSV);

TRANSIENTS;

EID: 20444459538     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2005.02.019     Document Type: Article

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