Modeling of a buoyancy-driven flow experiment at the ROCOM test facility using the CFD codes CFX-5 and Trio_U

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 236, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1309-1325

  Höhne, Thomas ^a   Kliem, Sören ^a   Bieder, Ulrich ^b  

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

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

EMERGENCY CORE COOLING (ECC); REYNOLDS STRESS TURBULENCE MODEL; ROSSENDORF COOLANT MIXING (ROCOM);

BUOYANCY;

EID: 33646118966     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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