Wavelet-based method for instability analysis in boiling water reactors

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 250-260

  Espinosa Paredes, Gilberto ^a   Prieto Guerrero, Alfonso ^a   Núñez Carrera, Alejandro ^b   Amador García, Rodolfo ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

^b Comisión Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

BWR instability; Laguna Verde event; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSIENTS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM (CWT); DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM (DWT); INSTABILITY EVENTS; SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORM (STFT); WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 23844542502     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT05-A3647     Document Type: Article

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