Validation and application of the WABE code: Investigations of constitutive laws and 2D effects on debris coolability

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 236, Issue 19-21, 2006, Pages 2164-2188

  Bürger, Manfred ^a   Buck, Michael ^a   Schmidt, Werner ^a   Widmann, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; COOLING; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; QUENCHING;

DEEP WATER POOL; FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE; LATERAL WATER COLUMN; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL;

LIGHT WATER REACTORS;

EID: 33746642455     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2006.03.058     Document Type: Article

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