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McSAFER MOOC Part 8: Pin level transport
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Spectral History Modeling in the Reactor Dynamics Code DYN3D
Get PDFA new method of treating spectral history effects in reactor core calculations was developed and verified in this dissertation. The nature of history effects is a dependence of fuel properties not only on the burnup, but also on the local spectral conditions during burnup. The basic idea of the proposed method is the use of the plutonium-239 concentration as the spectral history indicator. The method was implemented in the reactor dynamics code DYN3D and provides a correction for nodal cross sections according to the local spectral history.
A verification of the new method was performed by single-assembly calculations in comparison with results of the lattice code HELIOS. The application of plutonium-based history correction significantly improves the cross section estimation accuracy both for UOX and MOX fuel, with quadratic and hexagonal geometry.
The new method was applied to evaluate the influence of history effects on full-core calculation results. Analysis of a PWR equilibrium fuel cycle has shown a significant effect on the axial power distribution during a whole cycle, which causes axial temperature and burnup redistributions. The observed neutron flux redistribution improves neutron economy, so the fuel cycle is longer than in calculations without history corrections. Analyses of hypothetical control rod ejection accidents have shown a minor influence of history effects on the transient course and safety relevant parameters.Eine neue Methode zur Modellierung der Spektralgeschichte als Bestandteil von Kernreaktorberechnungen wurde in dieser Dissertation entwickelt und verifiziert. Die spektrale Abbrandgeschichte hat praktische Bedeutung für die Brennstoffeigenschaften, die nicht nur von der Höhe des Abbrandwertes, sondern auch vom lokalen Neutronenspektrum während des Abbrandprozesses abhängen. Die Grundidee der vorgeschlagenen Methode besteht in der Nutzung der lokalen Plutonium-239-Konzentration als quantitativen Indikator für die spektrale Abbrandgeschichte. Die Methode wurde in das Reaktordynamikprogramm DYN3D implementiert; sie gewährleistet eine Korrektur der nodalen Wirkungsquerschnitte gemäß der lokalen spektralen Abbrandgeschichte.
Eine Verifikation der neuen Methode wurde mit Einzelbrennelementberechnungen im Vergleich zu Ergebnissen des Zellabbrandprogramms HELIOS durchgeführt. Die Korrektur auf der Basis der Plutoniumkonzentration verbessert die Genauigkeit der Wirkungsquerschnitte signifikant, sowohl für UOX als auch für MOX, in quadratischer und hexagonaler Geometrie.
Die neue Methode wurde für die Bestimmung des Einflusses der spektralen Abbrandgeschichte auf die Modellierung ganzer Reaktorkerne angewandt. Die Analyse eines DWRGleichgewichtszyklus zeigt eine signifikante Auswirkung auf die axiale Leistungsverteilung während eines ganzen Zyklus. Über die axiale Temperaturverteilung (Rückkopplung) entsteht wiederum eine Rückwirkung auf die Abbrandverteilung selbst. Die beobachtete modifizierte Neutronenflussverteilung verbessert die Neutronenökonomie, sodass der Brennstoffzyklus länger wird, verglichen mit Berechnungen ohne Berücksichtigung der Abbrandgeschichte. Analysen von hypothetischen Stabauswurfszenarien ergaben einen nur geringen Einfluss der Abbrandgeschichte auf Transientenverlauf und sicherheitsrelevante Parameter
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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