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A new finite-difference model of heat transfer inside a shallow coaxial ground heat exchanger and in the surrounding layered soil is presented, taking into account the freezing of ground moisture. Three modes of heat exchanger operation are…
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The edge plasma turbulence and transport dynamics, as well as the divertor power loads during the thermal quench phase of tokamak disruptions are numerically investigated with BOUT++'s flux-driven, six-field electromagnetic turbulence…
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