Quantitative assessment of thermal-hydraulic codes used for heavy water reactor calculations

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 236, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 295-308

  Prošek, Andrej ^a   D'Auria, Francesco ^b   Richards, David J ^c   Mavko, Borut ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDRAULICS;

COMPUTER CODES; FOURIER TRANSFORM BASED METHOD (FFTBM); STANDARD PROBLEM EXERCISE (SPE); THERMAL-HYDRAULIC CODES;

HEAVY WATER REACTORS;

EID: 31144454771     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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