Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis, and Data Assimilation for Nuclear Systems Simulation

Nuclear Data Sheets

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2785-2790

  Abdel Khalik, H ^a   Turinsky, P ^a   Jessee, M ^a   Elkins, J ^a   Stover, T ^a   Iqbal, M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST REACTORS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

% REDUCTIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EFFICIENT SUBSPACE METHOD; NEUTRONICS; NUCLEAR DATA; NUCLEAR SYSTEMS; SIMULATION UNCERTAINTY; SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 57049182499     PISSN: 00903752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nds.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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