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The SLOOP Code Development

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This chapter is sandwiched between Chaps. 6 and 8 which deal with the issues of the discovery of complex characteristics and their analysis and about the publication history of the characteristics paper Lyczkowski et al. (Nucl Sci Eng 66:378–396, 1978 [1]).

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Abbreviations

C :

Speed of sound

g :

Gravitational acceleration

K :

Drag function

P :

Pressure

u :

Velocity in x direction

t :

Time

x :

Coordinate direction

α :

Volume fraction

λ :

Eigenvalue of the characteristic polynomial = dx/dt

ρ :

Microscopic material density

i :

Phase i = solid or liquid

j :

Phase j = gas or vapor

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Lyczkowski, R.W. (2018). The SLOOP Code Development. 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_7

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