Dynamic reliability: Towards efficient simulation of the availability of a feedwater control system

8th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies 2012, NPIC and HMIT 2012: Enabling the Future of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 714-723

  Zhang, Huilong ^a,b,c   De Saporta, Benoîte ^a,b,c   Dufour, François ^a,b   Deleuze, Gilles ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

^d EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic PRA PSA; Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL METHODOLOGIES; COMPLEX CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDWATER CONTROL SYSTEM; LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; MODELING AND SIMULATION; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; PIECEWISE CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS; PIECEWISE DETERMINISTIC MARKOV PROCESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FLOW RATE; FORESTRY; LEVELING (MACHINERY); MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MODELS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PETRI NETS; RELIABILITY; WATER LEVELS;

CONTROL THEORY;

EQUATIONS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FORESTRY; LEVELING; MODELS; NUCLEAR POWER; POWER PLANTS; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 84880455376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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