Application of adjoint sensitivity analysis to nuclear reactor fuel rod performance
dc.contributor.author | Wilderman, Scott J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Was, Gary S. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T18:25:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T18:25:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1984-07-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Wilderman, Scott J., Was, Gary S. (1984/07/01)."Application of adjoint sensitivity analysis to nuclear reactor fuel rod performance." Nuclear Engineering and Design 80(1): 27-38. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/24759> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V4D-47YRBP4-S1/2/9a63714f0604fbc2c427fd9e38cd4c92 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/24759 | |
dc.description.abstract | Adjoint sensitivity analysis in nuclear fuel behavior modeling is extended to operate on the entire power history for both Zircaloy and stainless steel cladding via the computer codes FCODE-ALPHA/SS and SCODE/SS. The sensitivities of key variables to input parameters are found to be highly non-intuitive and strongly dependent on the fuel-clad gap status and the history of the fuel during the cycle. The sensitivities of five key variables, clad circumferential stress and strain, fission gas release, fuel centerline temperature and fuel-clad gap, to eleven input parameters are studied. The most important input parameters (yielding significances between 1 and 100) are fabricated clad inner and outer radii and fuel radius. The least important significances (less than 0.01) are the time since reactor start-up and fuel burnup densification rate. Intermediate to these are fabricated fuel porosity, linear heat generation rate, the power history scale factor, clad outer temperature, fill gas pressure and coolant pressure. Stainless steel and Zircaloy have similar sensitivities at start-up but these diverge as burnup proceeds due to the effect of the higher creep rate of Zircaloy which causes the system to be more responsive to changes in input parameters. The value of adjoint sensitivity analysis lies in its capability of uncovering dependencies of fuel variables on input parameters that cannot be determined by a sequential thought process. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Application of adjoint sensitivity analysis to nuclear reactor fuel rod performance | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/24759/1/0000182.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0029-5493(84)90079-7 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Nuclear Engineering and Design | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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