Adjoint sensitivity analysis of the RELAP5/MOD3.2 two-fluid thermal-hydraulic code system - I: Theory

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-84

  Cacuci, D G ^a   Ionescu Bujor, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ADJOINT SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; DISCRETIZATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MOD; SOFTWARE PACKAGE RELAP;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

EID: 0034270802     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE136-59     Document Type: Article

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