Benchmark analysis of the DeCART MOC code with the VENUS-2 critical experiment

Proceedings of the PHYSOR 2004: The Physics of Fuel Cycles and Advanced Nuclear Systems - Global Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1723-1733

  Zhong, Z ^a   Downar, T J ^a   Joo, H G ^b   Cho, J Y ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Benchmark; DeCART; VENUS

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BENCHMARKING; DATA REDUCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY THEORY;

BENCHMARK; CRITICAL EXPERIMENT; DECART; VENUS;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 22344438796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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