Energy group optimization for forward and inverse problems in nuclear engineering: Application to downwell-logging problems

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 99-120

  Aristodemou, Elsa ^a   Pain, Christopher ^a   de Oliveira, Cassiano ^b   Umpleby, Adrian ^a   Goddard, Tony ^a   Harris, Christopher ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUTRONS; OPTIMIZATION; WELL LOGGING;

DOWNWELL-LOGGING PROBLEMS; ENERGY GROUP OPTIMIZATION; NEUTRON ENERGY STRUCTURE; RADIATION TRANSPORT PROBLEMS;

NUCLEAR ENERGY;

INVERSE PROBLEM; NUCLEAR POWER; OPTIMIZATION; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 33645983636     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2006.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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