Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 213981, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/213981
Research Article

CFD Application to Hydrogen Risk Analysis and PAR Qualification

Jinbiao Xiong, Yanhua Yang, and Xu Cheng

School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, No. 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China

Received 19 September 2008; Revised 30 November 2008; Accepted 15 January 2009

Academic Editor: Walter Ambrosini

Copyright © 2009 Jinbiao Xiong et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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