Predicting neutron diffusion eigenvalues with a query-based adaptive neural architecture

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 790-800

  Lysenko, Michael G ^b   Wong, Hing Ip ^c   Maldonado, G Ivan ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

^c DER/RNE/PhR   (France)

^d Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; ITERATIVE METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; NEUTRON EMISSION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REACTOR CORES;

ADAPTIVE NEURAL ARCHITECTURE; DYNAMIC NODE ARCHITECTURE; EQUIVALENCE QUERIES; MEMBERSHIP QUERIES; NEUTRON DIFFUSION;

MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0032637956     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.774221     Document Type: Article

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