Analysis of granular flow in a pebble-bed nuclear reactor

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Rycroft, Chris H ^a   Grest, Gary S ^b   Landry, James W ^a   Bazant, Martin Z ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSIFICATION; FRICTION; FUELS; GRAPHITE; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISCOELASTICITY;

GRANULAR FLOW; GRAPHITE FUEL PEBBLES; PEBBLE-BED NUCLEAR REACTORS; RESIDENCE-TIME DISTRIBUTION;

GRANULAR MATERIALS;

EID: 33747790878     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.021306     Document Type: Article

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