The IRIS pressurizer: Simulation of out-surge transients and optimization procedure to design scaled experiments

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 730-739

  Botelho, David A ^a   De Sampaio, Paulo A B ^a   Lapa, Celso M F ^a   Pereira, Cláudio M N A ^a   Moreira, Maria de Lourdes ^a   Barroso, Antônio Carlos de O ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA NUCLEAR   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nuclear reactor; Optimization procedure; Pressurizer simulation; Scaled experiment

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; ALGORITHMS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EQUATIONS OF STATE; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GALLIUM; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; NUMBER THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE; QUALITY CONTROL; REACTION KINETICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; VAPORS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (2+1)-DIMENSIONAL; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); ENERGY EQUATION (EE); EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GA OPTIMIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM (GA); GEOMETRIC SIZES; LIQUID DROPS; LIQUID VOLUME; MASS AND ENERGY TRANSPORT; MASS FLOW RATES; NUMERIC MODELING; NUMERIC SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PRESSURE EQUATIONS; SCALED MODELING; STATE EQUATIONS; TEST EVALUATION; TRANSIENT MODELLING; VAPOR BUBBLES; VOLUME CONSTRAINTS;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 46149086757     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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