Multi-dimensional model of fluid flow and heat transfer in Generation-IV Supercritical Water Reactors

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 238, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1909-1916

  Gallaway, Tara ^a   Antal, Steven P ^a   Podowski, Michael Z ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOELECTRICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL MODELLING; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; COMPUTER CODING; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; FLUID FLOWING; MECHANISTIC MODELING; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; PSEUDO CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; SUPERCRITICAL PRESSURE (SCP); SUPERCRITICAL WATER (SCW); SUPERCRITICAL WATER REACTORS (SCWR); SUPERCRITICAL WATER-COOLED REACTORS (SCWR); THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); WATER PROPERTIES;

WATER COOLED REACTORS;

EID: 48349136558     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2007.11.019     Document Type: Article

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