Methods of simulating large-scale rod bundle and application to a 17 × 17 fuel assembly with mixing vane spacer grid

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 267, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-22

  Li, Xiaochang ^a   Gao, Ye ^a  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL AMOUNTS; CONVENTIONAL COMPUTERS; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFERS; OUTLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; REACTOR COOLANT SYSTEMS; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC PROBLEM;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUELS; MIXING; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84890943239     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2013.11.064     Document Type: Article

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