Experiments at the mixing test facility ROCOM for benchmarking of CFD codes

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 566-576

  Kliem, S ^a   Suhnel T ^a   Rohde, U ^a   Hohne T ^a   Prasser, H M ^b   Weiss, F P ^a  

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COOLANTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; REACTOR CORES;

COOLANT MIXING; MIXING TEST FACILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 39149128290     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.02.053     Document Type: Article

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