Study of the possibility of determining mass flow of water from neutron activation measurements with flow simulations and neural networks

Kerntechnik

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 188-196

  Lindén, Per ^a   Pázsit, Imre ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSFER; SIGNAL DETECTION;

DETECTOR SIGNALS; MASS FLOW; MASS-FLOW RATE; NEURAL-NETWORKS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION MEASUREMENTS; NON-INTRUSIVE; PULSED NEUTRON; SIMULATION NETWORK; TIME AVERAGING; TIME-RESOLVED;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0001184409     PISSN: 09323902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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