Model evaluation of two-group interfacial area transport equation for confined upward flow

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 230, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 27-47

  Sun, Xiaodong ^a   Kim, Seungjin ^a   Ishii, Mamoru ^a   Beus, Stephen G ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BETTIS ATOMIC POWER LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COALESCENCE; HEAT SINKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE PHENOMENA; TURBULENCE;

INTERFACIAL AREA TRANSPORT EQUATIONS (IATE); RANDOM COLLISIONS; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; TURBULENT IMPACT (TI);

CONFINED FLOW;

EID: 2342477198     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2003.10.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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