Advanced nodal methods of the few-group BWR core simulator nereus

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 996-1008

  Iwamoto, Tatsuya ^a   Yamamoto, Munenari ^a  

^a Isogo Nuclear Engineering Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Analytic polynomial; BWR type reactors; Control blade history; Depletion model; Discontinuity factors; Few group; Intranodal burnup distribution; Nodal diffusion; Reactor cores; Simulators; Spectral history

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; DIFFUSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT FLUX; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR REACTOR SIMULATORS; POLYNOMIALS;

POLYNOMIAL NODAL METHODS;

REACTOR CORES;

EID: 0033319158     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.1999.9726292     Document Type: Article

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