Numerical tools applied to power reactor noise analysis

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-81

  Demazière, Christophe ^a   Pázsit, Imre ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analysis of measurements; Code development; Modeling; Noise analysis; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; BOILING POINT; BOILING WATER REACTORS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NEUTRONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POWER PLANTS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REACTOR CORES; STEAM POWER PLANTS; WATER COOLED REACTORS;

ANALYSIS OF MEASUREMENTS; BOILING WATERS; CODE DEVELOPMENT; CONCRETE APPLICATIONS; CRITICAL SYSTEMS; DECAY RATIOS; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS; DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS; DISCRETE LOCATIONS; EXTERNAL SOURCES; GROUP THEORIES; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; INHOMOGENEOUS SYSTEMS; KINETIC APPROXIMATION]; MODELING; MODERATOR TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS; NEUTRON NOISES; NOISE ANALYSIS; NOISE SOURCES; NUMERICAL TOOLS; PLANT MEASUREMENTS; PLANT OPERATIONS; POWER REACTORS; POWER UPRATES; PRESSURIZED WATERS; SOME APPLICATIONS; SUBCRITICAL SYSTEMS;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 56949104734     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2008.01.010     Document Type: Review

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