Constrained optimization of sensor placement for nuclear digital twins

N Karnik, MG Abdo, CE Estrada-Perez… - IEEE Sensors …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deployment of extensive sensor arrays in nuclear reactors is infeasible due to
challenging operating conditions and inherent spatial limitations. Strategically placing …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor using reduced-order models

F Alsayyari, M Tiberga, Z Perkó, JL Kloosterman… - Progress in Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a reduced-order modeling approach to study the Molten Salt Fast
Reactor (MSFR). Our approach is nonintrusive and based on the proper orthogonal …

Dynamic mode decomposition for the stability analysis of the Molten Salt Fast Reactor core

A Di Ronco, C Introini, E Cervi, S Lorenzi… - … Engineering and Design, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of innovative nuclear reactors involves the use of increasingly complex numerical
models. While such models provide a high-fidelity description of many non-linear coupled …

Nuclide number density prediction in the lattice physics calculation based on Dynamic mode decomposition

S Qin, Q Zhang, Y Zhang, P Xue, Z Li - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
Burnup analysis in nuclear reactors requires iterative computation of neutron transport and
fuel depletion, which is computationally intensive, particularly for large-scale scenarios. This …

Modeling neutronic transients with Galerkin projection onto a greedy-sampled, POD subspace

R Elzohery, J Roberts - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Presented here is an application of POD-Galerkin projection to develop a reduced-order-
model (ROM) that approximates the solution of the multi-group, time-dependent, diffusion …

Exploring transient, neutronic, reduced-order models using DMD/POD-Galerkin and data-driven DMD

R Elzohery, J Roberts - EPJ Web of Conferences, 2021 - epj-conferences.org
There is growing interest in the development of transient, multiphysics models for nuclear
reactors and analysis of uncertainties in those models. Reduced-order models (ROMs) …

Prediction of state transitions in 3D core dynamics and xenon transients based on dynamic mode decomposition

W Li, S Peng, J Li, Q He, T Wang, Y Zhang, H Lu… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study proposes a method based on Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) for predicting
the state transitions of core dynamics and xenon transients in nuclear reactors. Both types of …

Proper orthogonal decomposition mode coefficient interpolation: a non-intrusive reduced-order model for parametric reactor kinetics

ZK Hardy, JE Morel - Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, a non-intrusive reduced-order model (ROM) for parametric reactor kinetics
simulations is presented. Time-dependent ROMs are notoriously data intensive and difficult …

Application of dynamic mode decomposition to exponential experiment for spatial decay constant determination

T Yamamoto, H Sakamoto - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
When measuring the fundamental mode decay constant γ in an exponential experiment, it is
difficult to extract the fundamental mode from a measured neutron flux distribution that is …

Acceleration of the power method with dynamic mode decomposition

JA Roberts, L Xu, R Elzohery… - Nuclear Science and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
An algorithm based on dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) for acceleration of the power
method (PM) is presented. The PM is a simple technique for determining the dominant …