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K. Takeuchi, M. Y. Young
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 100 | Number 4 | December 1988 | Pages 380-384
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE88-A23570
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Developed and applied to the WCOBRA/TRAC code for speed up is an implicit numerical method with an iterative solution scheme of semi-implicit format. For a sample problem of subcooled liquid, computation speed was increased by a factor of 2 to 3 or more. For problems involving phase transition and heat transfer, other techniques of iteration control, time-step control, adjustment of correlations, and numerical stabilizer were introduced. Consequently, computation speed was increased by a factor of 2.
