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’Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
No electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged by the chimney with care
With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
E. D. Hughes, K. R. Katsma, M. P. Paulsen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 70 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 30-41
Technical Paper | Third International Retran Meeting / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33661
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Results of additional improvements to the numerical solution methods used in RETRAN are presented. The new solution methods remove time-step size limitations associated with the four- and five-equation two-phase models in RETRAN. The four-equation, dynamic slip model is solved by a noniterative method that requires only one evaluation of a single matrix per time step. The five-equation, nonequilibrium model is solved by a two-step method. Calculations show that much larger time steps can be used with the new methods as compared with the standard methods.