Novel fluctuation reduction procedure for nuclear reactivity calculations based on the discrete fourier transform method
A new method for calculating nuclear reactivity based on the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) – with two filters: a first-order delay low-pass filter and a Savitzky-Golay filter – is presented. The reactivity is calculated from an integrodifferential equation known as the inverse point kinetic equat...
- Autores:
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Lozano Parada, Jaime Humberto
Suescún-Díaz, Daniel
Rasero, Diego
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2019
- Institución:
- Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
- Repositorio:
- RED: Repositorio Educativo Digital UAO
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:red.uao.edu.co:10614/11570
- Palabra clave:
- Molecular dynamics
Dinámica molecular
Reactivity
Nuclear power plant
Nuclear reactor
Numerical simulation
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Derechos Reservados - Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
| Summary: | A new method for calculating nuclear reactivity based on the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) – with two filters: a first-order delay low-pass filter and a Savitzky-Golay filter – is presented. The reactivity is calculated from an integrodifferential equation known as the inverse point kinetic equation, which contains the history of neutron population density. The new method can be understood as a convolution between the neutron population density signal and the response to the characteristic impulse of a linear system. The proposed method is based on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) that performs a circular convolution. The fast Fourier transform algorithm (FFT) with the zero-padding technique is implemented to reduce the computational cost |
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