Numerical simulations of square arrayed rod bundles

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 247, Issue , 2012, Pages 168-182

  Horváth, Ákos ^a   Dressel, Bernd ^a  

^a AREVA NP GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MESH SENSITIVITY; OPTIMAL MESH; REYNOLDS STRESS MODELS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; ROD BUNDLES; SINGLE PHASE; STRUCTURED MESH; VELOCITY FIELD; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE MODELS; VELOCITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84859918971     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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