Quantifying Transient Uncertainty in the BEAVRS Benchmark Using Time Series Analysis Methods
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Kumar, Shikhar; Liang, Jingang; Forget, Benoit Robert Yves; Smith, Kord S.![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/109793/Forget_Quantifying%20Transient%20Uncertainty%20in%20the%20BEAVRS%20Benchmark%20Using%20Time%20Series%20Analysis%20Methods.pdf.jpg?sequence=4&isAllowed=y)
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Introduction - Advances in computation have brought about significant improvements in creating fast-running high-fidelity simulations of nuclear cores. The BEAVRS benchmark [1] is a highly-detailed PWR specification with two cycles of measured operational data used to validate high-fidelity core analysis methods. This PWR depletion benchmark captures the fine details of the LWR fuel assemblies, burnable absorbers, in-core fission detectors, core loading and shuffling patterns. Specifically, 58 of the 193 assemblies contain in-core detectors with measurements taken over 61 axial positions every month.
These detectors are U-235 fission chambers with slightly varying mass of U-235. The collected signals are normalized on a given assembly permitting full core comparisons. The fuel layout for cycle 1 and instrument tube locations for the reactor are given in figures 1 and 2 respectively. Through a series of data processing and comparisons, it was shown [2] that axially integrated radial maps of reaction rates were in close
agreement between provided detector data and calculated data
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2016-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and EngineeringJournal
ANS Winter Meeting & Expo. PHYSOR 2016. Unifying Theory and Experiments in the 21st Century
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American Nuclear Society
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Kumar, Shikhar, Jingang Liang, Benoit Forget and Kord Smith. "Quantifying Transient Uncertainty in the BEAVRS Benchmark Using Time Series Analysis Methods." PHYSOR 2016. Unifying Theory and Experiments in the 21st Century (May 1-5, 2016)
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