Thermal-hydraulic Analysis of Helical Coil Steam Generator of The Multi-Application Small Light Water Reactor (MASLWR) Test Loop Using Drift Flux Model

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

Mansour Talebi ¹ , Valiyolah Ghazanfari ²

1 - Nuclear Science & Technology Research Institute, Iran
2 - Nuclear Science & Technology Research Institute, Iran

Received: 2018-04-19 Accepted : 2018-08-25 Published : 2018-09-01

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