Nonlinear analysis of nuclear coupled density wave instability in time domain for a boiling water reactor core undergoing core-wide and regional modes of oscillations

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 769-787

  Dutta, Goutam ^a   Doshi, Jagdeep B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Boiling water reactor; In phase and out of phase oscillations; Nuclear coupled thermal hydraulic model

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; CORE NEUTRONS; DENSITY WAVES; FEEDBACK EFFECTS; HEAT CONDUCTION MODELS; IN-PHASE; IN-PHASE AND OUT-OF-PHASE OSCILLATIONS; INLET SUBCOOLING; INTEGRATED MODELS; NEUTRONICS; NUCLEAR COUPLED THERMAL-HYDRAULIC MODEL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL TOOLS; OPERATIONAL TRANSIENTS; OUT OF PHASE; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PRIMARY CIRCUITS; REACTIVITY FEEDBACK; RESEARCH FACILITIES; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRONG NONLINEAR COUPLING; THERMAL HYDRAULICS; THERMAL-HYDRAULIC MODEL; TIME DOMAIN; WORKING CONDITIONS;

BOILING WATER REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; HEAT CONDUCTION; HYDRAULIC MODELS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PHASE STABILITY; REACTIVITY (NUCLEAR); REACTOR CORES; SIMULATORS; SUPERALLOYS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 68749104345     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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