MODELING OF THE DISPERSION OF DEPLETED URANIUM AEROSOL

@article{Mitsakou2003MODELINGOT,
  title={MODELING OF THE DISPERSION OF DEPLETED URANIUM AEROSOL},
  author={Christina Mitsakou and Konstantinos Eleftheriadis and Christos Housiadas and Mihalis Lazaridis},
  journal={Health Physics},
  year={2003},
  volume={84},
  pages={538-544},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3244650}
}
An analytical puff model accommodating diffusion with simultaneous deposition is developed, which can provide a reasonable estimation of the dispersion of the released depleted uranium aerosol and results show that the depleted uranium mass is deposited very close to the release point.
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