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1 Stability in boiling water reactors: Models and digital signal processing |
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1.1 Nuclear power plants and their impact in our world |
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1.2 BWR and the stability issue |
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1.3 Dynamical analysis in BWR: Introducing codes |
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1.4 Digital signal processing and nuclear reactors |
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1.5 Toward a new paradigm in BWR stability analysis: Models and digital signal processing, a nonlinear approach |
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2 Description of boiling water reactors |
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2.2 Boiling water reactor: Development and evolution |
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2.3 Boiling water reactor of generation II |
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2.4 Boiling water reactor of generation III |
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2.5 Boiling water reactor of generation III+ |
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2.6 Power uprate in boiling water reactors |
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3 Instability phenomena in BWRs |
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3.1 Types of instabilities |
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3.3 Dynamic instabilities |
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3.5 Out-of-phase instability |
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3.6 Partial out-of-phase oscillation |
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3.7 Instability events in operating power plants and lessons learned |
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3.8 Instabilities produced by the control system |
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3.9 Thermal-acoustic oscillations in BWRs |
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4 Propagation phenomena in boiling water reactors |
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4.1 Void wave propagation speed |
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4.2 Pressure wave propagation speed |
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4.3 Heat wave propagation speed |
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4.4 Neutronic wave propagation speed |
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4.5 Magnitude order of wave propagation speed in BWR |
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5 Dynamics of BWRs and mathematical models |
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5.1 Neutron density dynamic model |
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5.2 Approximation P1 of the transport equations |
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5.3 Neutron diffusion coefficients in nuclear reactors |
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5.4 Neutron point kinetics equations |
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5.5 Fuel heat transfer dynamics in nuclear reactor |
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5.7 Reduced order model (ROM) |
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5.8 Linear analysis with effects of neutron relaxation times |
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5.9 Decay ratio as linear stability indicator |
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6 Linear signal processing methods and decay ratio estimation |
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6.1 Classical spectral estimation: Fourier transform-based methods |
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6.2 Modern spectral estimation: Autoregressive model-based methods |
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6.3 Decay ratio estimation based on the FFT and AR models |
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6.4 Wavelet-based methods and DR estimation |
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6.5 Application of the multiresolution analysis |
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6.6 Application of the continuous wavelet transform |
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7 Nonlinear signal processing methods: DR estimation and nonlinear stability indicators |
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7.1 Empirical mode decomposition |
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7.2 Hilbert-Huang transform |
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7.3 Estimation of DR and out-of-phase oscillations based on EMD-HHT |
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7.4 Introducing nonlinear stability indicators |
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7.5 Numerical experiments with synthetic signals |
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7.6 Applications in real nuclear power plants |
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7.7 Final remarks: DR, SE, and LLE |
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8 Linear and nonlinear monitor for BWR: Implementation and performance |
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8.1 Benchmarks data: Forsmark and Ringhals |
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8.2 Monitoring system in a BWR |
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8.3 Stability monitor implementation: Algorithms and performance |
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8.4 The real-time implementation issue |
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Abbreviations |
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References |
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Index |
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