Fuel management optimization using genetic algorithms and expert knowledge

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 188-196

  DeChaine, Michael D ^a   Feltus, Madeline A ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CONSTRAINT THEORY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTOR CORES;

BIT STRING GENOTYPE; FUEL MANAGEMENT; GENOTYPE ENCODING BIAS MINIMIZATION; INITIAL POPULATION BIASING; PEAK NORMALIZED POWER; PENALTY FUNCTION; REGIONAL CROSSOVER;

FUEL ECONOMY;

EID: 0030246996     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE96-A24234     Document Type: Article

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