A test of main stream pin power reconstruction methods

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 395-406

  Grimm, Peter ^a   Aboudy, Menashe ^b   Galperin, Alex ^b   Segev, Meir ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA TRANSFER; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIXED OXIDE FUELS; URANIUM;

CORNER POINT FLUXES; ELCOS SYSTEM; MANY TERM FLUX EXPANSIONS; NODAL CORE CALCULATIONS; PIN POWER RECONSTRUCTION; SEPARABILITY ASSUMPTION;

REACTOR CORES;

EID: 0030104136     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE96-A24174     Document Type: Article

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