Axial offset control of PWR nuclear reactor core using intelligent techniques

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 285-300

  Boroushaki, Mehrdad ^a   Ghofrani, Mohammad B ^a   Lucas, Caro ^b   Yazdanpanah, Mohammad J ^b   Sadati, Nasser ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; TRANSIENTS; Z TRANSFORMS;

AXIAL OFFSET (AO); CONTROL ROD GROUPS (CRG); POWER DENSITY;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

EID: 0742320653     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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