NEPTUNE: A new software platform for advanced nuclear thermal hydraulics

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 281-324

  Guelfi, Antoine ^a   Bestion, Dominique ^b   Boucker, Marc ^a   Boudier, Pascal ^b   Fillion, Philippe ^c   Grandotto, Marc ^d   Hérard, Jean Marc ^a   Hervieu, Eric ^b   Péturaud, Pierre ^a  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

^d IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTABILITY AND DECIDABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

INTERFACIAL AREA; MULTISCALE CALCULATIONS; MULTISCALE PLATFORMS; NUCLEAR THERMAL HYDRAULICS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547477750     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE05-98     Document Type: Article

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