Development of pressurized water reactor integrated safety analysis methodology using multilevel coupling algorithm

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 414-425

  Ziabletsev, Dmitri ^a   Avramova, Maria ^a   Ivanov, Kostadin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA TRANSFER; ENTHALPY; FUEL CELLS; HEAT FLUX; HYDRAULICS; KINETIC THEORY; NEUTRONS; NUCLEATE BOILING; PELLETIZING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

HOT CHANNEL FACTORS (HCFS); INTEGRATED SAFETY ANALYSIS; MULTILEVEL COUPLING ALGORITHM; NODAL EXPANSION METHOD (NEM);

PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS;

EID: 9944239882     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE04-A2467     Document Type: Article

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