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Title: Safety-oriented global analysis and parallel processing

Journal Article · · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
OSTI ID:89097

The objective of safety-oriented global analysis (SOGA) is to determine the conditions under which the evolution of a dynamic system in time remains within the imposed constraints in view of the uncertainties on the system parameters and/or the observed systern state. Often the only generally applicable SOGA method for nonlinear systems is the direct integration of the governing equations, which can be computationally prohibitive. An alternative SOGA methodology has been under dridopment at the Ohio State University (OSU), and its application to reactor dynamics has been illustrated in previous presentations. In spite of the computational advantage of the OSU methodology over direct integration, the computational time and storage requirements are still limiting factors in implementation. A procedure to reduce the storage requirements was presented earlier. This paper describes how the computational time can be reduced using parallel processing.

OSTI ID:
89097
Report Number(s):
CONF-941102-; ISSN 0003-018X; TRN: 95:004215-0168
Journal Information:
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 71; Conference: Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), Washington, DC (United States), 13-18 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English