Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 198758, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/198758
Research Article

Application of CFD Codes in Nuclear Reactor Safety Analysis

T. Höhne, E. Krepper, and U. Rohde

Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD), Institute of Safety Research, P. O. Box 51 01 19, D-01314 Dresden, Germany

Received 16 January 2009; Accepted 29 June 2009

Academic Editor: Michel Giot

Copyright © 2010 T. Höhne 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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