Numerical treatment of pebble contact in the flow and heat transfer analysis of a pebble bed reactor core

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 237, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 2183-2196

  Lee, Jung Jae ^a   Park, Goon Cherl ^a   Kim, Kwang Yong ^b   Lee, Won Jae ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; PACKED BEDS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

INTER PEBBLE MODELING; NUMERICAL TREATMENT; PEBBLE BED REACTOR;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 35348904460     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.03.046     Document Type: Article

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