Uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of the Kozloduy pump trip test using coupled thermal-hydraulic 3D kinetics code

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 236, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1240-1255

  Salah, Anis Bousbia ^a   Kliem, Soeren ^b   Rohde, Ulrich ^b   D'Auria, Francesco ^a   Petruzzi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRAULICS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DOPPLER FEEDBACK EFFECT; ERROR QUANTIFICATION; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC 3D KINETICS CODE;

PUMPS;

EID: 33646103663     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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