Proposal of an effective initial guess scheme for higher harmonic mode calculation of boiling water reactor cores

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 714-716

  Takeuchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Hotta, Akitoshi ^a  

^a Toden Software Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACCORD; BWR type reactors; Eigenvalue problem; Harmonic oscillator models; Higher harmonic mode; Initial guess; Oscillations; Power method; Regional instability; Ringhals 1; Stability; Subtraction method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342774603     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/18811248.1997.9733731     Document Type: Article

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