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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
I. Toumi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 2 | June 1996 | Pages 147-168
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24180
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An upwind numerical method for a six equation two-fluid model is presented based on a linearized Riemann solver. The construction of this approximate Riemann solver uses an extension of Roe’s method that has been successfully used to solve gas dynamics equations in aerodynamics problems. As far as the two-fluid model is hyperbolic, this numerical method seems very efficient for the numerical solution of two-phase flow problems. In practice, this new numerical method has proved to be stable on nonstaggered grids and capable of generating accurate nonoscillating solutions for two-phase flow calculations. The scheme was applied both to shock tube problems and to standard tests for two-fluid codes.