Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 816543, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/816543
Research Article
Dynamics of Fluid Fuel Reactors in the Presence of Periodic Perturbations
Dipartimento di Energetica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, Torino 24-10129, Italy
Received 28 May 2007; Accepted 3 December 2007
Academic Editor: Borut Mavko
Copyright © 2008 S. Dulla and C. Nicolino. This is an open access article distributed under the
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