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IAEA looks at nuclear techniques for crop resilience
The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched a five-year coordinated research project (CRP) to strengthen plant health preparedness using nuclear and related technologies.
Wheat blast, potato late blight, potato bacterial wilt, and cassava witches broom disease can spread quickly across large areas of land, leading to severe yield losses in key crops for food security. Global trade and climate change have increased the likelihood of rapid, transboundary spread.
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.