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Effects of cross sections library parameters on the OECD/NEA Oskarshamn-2 benchmark solution
No full textThe OECD/NEA proposes a new international benchmark based on data collected during an instability transient occurred at the Oskarshamn-2 NPP. This benchmark is aimed at testing the coupled 3D Neutron Kinetic-Thermal Hydraulic (3D NK-TH) codes on challenging situations. The ENEA "Casaccia" Research Center, is participating to this benchmark, developing a computational model using the RELAP5-3D© code. The 3DNK model has been already developed from the cross sections dataset calculated by OKG, the Oskarshamn-2 licensee, through the CASMO lattice code. In order to use this neutron cross sections database in RELAP5-3D© a n-dimensional polynomials data fitting and base cross sections values calculations are required. An ad-hoc tool, named PROMETHEUS, has been developed for automatically generating RELAP5-3D©-compatible cross sections libraries. This tool allows at easily visualizing the complex structure of the neutronic datasets; moreover it is exploited for deriving different cross sections libraries needed to evaluate neutronic parameters effects on the reactor instability prediction. Thus, the effects of the fuel temperature and control rod histories, of the discontinuity factors (averaged/not averaged) and of the neutron poisons has been assessed. A ranking table has been produced, demonstrating the relevance of the not-averaged discontinuity factors and of the on-transient neutron poisons calculations for the correct prediction of the Oskarshamn-2 event. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
ASTEC modules and needed upgrades for performing LMR containment simulations
No full textThe present report summarizes in the first chapter the basic models used in the ASTEC code for the simulation of ali essential phenomena that could occur during a severe accidents in the containment o a LWR. In the second chapter, a list of the new models to be implemented in the ASTEC code far simulating severe accidents in the LMR facilities is presented and discussed. In the last chapter, a description of the NRC CONTAIN code and of his special version CONTAIN-LMR is given, in order to highlight the fundamental improvements which allowed the code application to the LMR severe accident analyse
Single and two-phase sodium flow analysis for two tucop cabri tests using the ASTEC-Na code
No full textThe development and validation of ASTEC-Na code as a safety code system for severe accident analysis is being performed in the framework of the JASMIN project supported by the European Commission. One of the main tasks of the modelling and validation tasks of this project is devoted to the sodium thermal hydraulic behavior both in single and two-phase regimes. In this paper we present the first ASTEC-Na results of E8 and EFM1 in-pile tests conducted in the CABRI experimental reactor. These two tests are LOF+TOP transients. We present for both CABRI tests a comparison between experimental data and ASTEC-Na results for transient coolant temperatures at different heights, boiling onset time, inlet and outlet flow rate and the evolution of the sodium two-phase front during the boiling time up to TOP onset. Besides, a benchmark is presented comparing ASTEC-Na simulation results with the results of other safety codes such as CATHARE, RELAP5-3D and SAS-SFR
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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