- Author
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Berthoud, G.
- Title
- Vapor Explosions.
- Coporate
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble, Grenoble cedex 9 France
- Journal
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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics,
Vol. 32,
573-611,
January 2000
- Keywords
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vapors
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explosions
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nuclear reactor safety
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accidents
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heat transfer
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liquids
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expansion
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experiments
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thermodynamics
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evaluation
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equations
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geometry
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pressure
- Identifiers
- thermite; premixxing phase; triggering phase; propagation phase; expansion phase; Sandia National Laboratory Experimental Program; Winfrith Experimental Program Using UO2-Mo Thermite; treatment of stream explosion; melt jet fragmentation; general problem of extending two-phase constitutive laws to multiphase systems; triggering mechanisms; nonequilibrium aspect for the coolant in the interaction zone; effect of noncondensable gases