Modeling nuclear reactor core dynamics with recurrent neural networks

Neurocomputing

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 363-381

  Adali, Tülay ^a   Bakal, Bora ^a   Sönmez, M Kemal ^b   Fakory, Reza ^c   Tsaoi, C Oliver ^c  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Simulat Syst Serv Technol C   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear reactor core dynamics; Recurrent neural networks

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

NUCLEAR REACTOR CORE DYNAMICS; RECURRENT MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON (RMLP) MODEL; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0031171376     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(97)00018-0     Document Type: Article

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