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METC Starts Erosion R&D Cooperative Venture and MFIX Code Development Using FLUFIX Code

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Greg Berry in the Energy and Environmental Systems (EES) Division (later Energy Systems Division) met with me and described a project he was trying to initiate with Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC).

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Lyczkowski, R.W. (2018). METC Starts Erosion R&D Cooperative Venture and MFIX Code Development Using FLUFIX Code. In: The History of Multiphase Science and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66502-3_13

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