Updating the Lambda modes of a nuclear power reactor

[EN] Starting from a steady state configuration of a nuclear power reactor some situations arise in which the reactor configuration is perturbed. The Lambda modes are eigenfunctions associated with a given configuration of the reactor, which have successfully been used to describe unstable events in...

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Autores: González Pintor, Sebastián, Ginestar Peiro, Damián|||0000-0003-1243-6648, Verdú Martín, Gumersindo Jesús|||0000-0001-5098-080X
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/99170
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/99170
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Subspace tracking problem
Lambda modes
Newton methods
MATEMATICA APLICADA
INGENIERIA NUCLEAR
ESTADISTICA E INVESTIGACION OPERATIVA
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Sumario:[EN] Starting from a steady state configuration of a nuclear power reactor some situations arise in which the reactor configuration is perturbed. The Lambda modes are eigenfunctions associated with a given configuration of the reactor, which have successfully been used to describe unstable events in BWRs. To compute several eigenvalues and its corresponding eigenfunctions for a nuclear reactor is quite expensive from the computational point of view. Krylov subspace methods are efficient methods to compute the dominant Lambda modes associated with a given configuration of the reactor, but if the Lambda modes have to be computed for different perturbed configurations of the reactor more efficient methods can be used. In this paper, different methods for the updating Lambda modes problem will be proposed and compared by computing the dominant Lambda modes of different configurations associated with a Boron injection transient in a typical BWR reactor. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.