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Godzilla is helping ITER prepare for tokamak assembly
ITER employees stand by Godzilla, the most powerful commercially available industrial robot available. (Photo: ITER)
Many people are familiar with Godzilla as a giant reptilian monster that emerged from the sea off the coast of Japan, the product of radioactive contamination. These days, there is a new Godzilla, but it has a positive—and entirely fact-based—association with nuclear energy. This one has emerged inside the Tokamak Assembly Preparation Building of ITER in southern France.
Sébastien Clerc
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 3 | July 1996 | Pages 415-420
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24204
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A domain decomposition method for steady-state, subsonic fluid dynamics calculations is presented. An implicit solver is used in each subdomain, with boundary data from previous iterations. A nonlinear numerical boundary condition is used to enhance convergence. Numerical examples are presented for the Euler equations of gas dynamics and a two-phase flow model.
