Abstract
We briefly describe the most important elements from physics in nuclear reactor fuel management. A simplified but still rather realistic model is used to generate fuel loading schemes. We describe several tricks and model adjustments that make the model tractable for a general nonlinear mixed-integer solver. Results are compared with results from simulated annealing and pairwise interchange. Using the solutions from nonlinear mixed-integer optimization as starting values for local search heuristics leads to powerful optimization methods.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Conference on Optimization in Industry |
| Editors | A.D. Belegundu, F. Mistree |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Pages | 153-158 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |
Keywords
- nuclear reactor
- fuel management
- optimization
- fuel loading schemes
- heuristic methods
- linear programming
- simulated annealing