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CORE SIM+ simulations of COLIBRI fuel rods oscillation experiments and comparison with measurements

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Carlo Fiorina, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Adolfo Rais, Daniel Godat, Paolo Vinai

At EPFL, the CROCUS reactor has been used to carry out experiments with vibrating fuel rods. The paper presents a first attempt to employ the measured data to validate CORE SIM+, a neutron noise solver developed at Chalmers University of Technology. For th ...

2021

Propagation of void fraction uncertainty measures in the RETRAN-3D simulation of the Peach Bottom turbine trip

Rakesh Chawla, Paolo Vinai

The paper describes the propagation of void fraction uncertainty, as quantified by employing a novel methodology developed at Paul Scherrer Institut, in the RETRAN-3D simulation of the Peach Bottom turbine trip test. Since the transient considered is chara ...

Elsevier2011

A statistical methodology for quantification of uncertainty in best estimate code physical models

Rakesh Chawla, Paolo Vinai

A novel uncertainty assessment methodology, based on a statistical non-parametric approach, is presented in this paper. It achieves quantification of code physical model uncertainty by making use of model performance information obtained from studies of ap ...

Elsevier Science Ltd.2007

Development and application of objective uncertainty measures for nuclear power plant transient analysis

Paolo Vinai

For the development, design and licensing of a nuclear power plant (NPP), a sound safety analysis is necessary to study the diverse physical phenomena involved in the system behaviour under a wide range of operational and transient conditions. Such studies ...

EPFL2007