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Technical Material

A computational study of flow mal-distribution on the thermal hydraulic performance of an intermediate heat exchanger in LMFBR

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Pages 845-857 | Received 11 Feb 2013, Accepted 04 Mar 2014, Published online: 15 Apr 2014

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