Feasibility study to increase the reactor power at natural convection mode in Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) through a hybrid thermal-hydraulic simulation and analysis using the RELAP5 code and Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modeling by ANSYS-FLUENT

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