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RELAP5 is Initiated by Vic Ransom and Dick Wagner Funded by Larry Ybarrondo

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After I left the SLOOP code at ANC and joined EI, my contacts with John Trapp, Bob Narum, and Chuck Noble, who remained behind, stopped completely. My interactions with Vic Ransom dwindled because I was extremely busy at EI and, when we did meet, they were purely social.

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Lyczkowski, R.W. (2018). RELAP5 is Initiated by Vic Ransom and Dick Wagner Funded by Larry Ybarrondo. In: The History of Multiphase Science and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66502-3_10

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