SIGNAL PROCESSING ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS FOR A FUEL SUBASSEMBLY USING SCILAB

Paawan Sharma, Murali Nagarajan, Prabhakaran Mohanakrishnan, and Pichai Iyer Swaminathan

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