Burnup span sensitivity analysis of different burnup coupling schemes

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 6-13

  Kheradmand Saadi, M ^a   Abbaspour, A ^a   Pazirandeh, A ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Burnup span; Monte Carlo depletion; Predictor corrector; Sensitivity analysis; Transition matrix

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; BURN UP; BURN-UP EFFECT; BURNUP CALCULATION; CASMO-4; CODE COMPARISONS; CORE COMPOSITION; COUPLING SCHEME; COUPLING TECHNIQUES; CROSS SECTION; EIGEN-VALUE; EULER METHOD; FIRST ORDER; FIRST ORDER METHOD; HIGH-BURN UP; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONTE CARLO; NEUTRON FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; PREDICTOR CORRECTOR; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER SCHEME; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STATE OF THE ART; TIME STEP; TRANSITION MATRICES; TRANSPORT METHOD;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860697500     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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