Estimation of the power peaking factor in a nuclear reactor using support vector machines and uncertainty analysis

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1181-1190

  Bae, In Ho ^a   Na, Man Gyun ^a   Lee, Yoon Joon ^a,b   Park, Goon Cherl ^a,c  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

^b Jeju National University   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Local power density; Power peaking factor; Subtractive clustering; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 72549099974     PISSN: 17385733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5516/NET.2009.41.9.1181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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