Quantum behaved Particle Swarm Optimization with Differential Mutation operator applied to WWER-1000 in-core fuel management optimization

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 134-140

  Jamalipour, Mostafa ^a   Sayareh, Reza ^a   Gharib, Morteza ^b   Khoshahval, Farrokh ^c   Karimi, Mahmood Reza ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Differential Mutation; In core fuel management; Particle Swarm Optimization; Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization; WWER 1000

Indexed keywords

BUSHEHR; CYCLE LENGTH; DIFFERENTIAL MUTATION; FUEL INTEGRITY; FUEL MANAGEMENT; IN-CORE FUEL MANAGEMENT; LOADING PATTERNS; MULTIPLICATION FACTOR; MUTATION OPERATORS; NEUTRONIC CALCULATIONS; OPERATING CYCLE; POWER PEAKING FACTOR; QUANTUM PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM-BEHAVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; WWER-1000;

FUELS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATLAB; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 84870856275     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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