Automated power-following control for nuclear thermal propulsion startup and shutdown using MOOSE-based applications

Keyphrases

• Multiphysics Object-oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) 100%
• Decay Heat 100%
• Nuclear Thermal Propulsion 100%
• Controller 50%
• Steady State 50%
• Control Strategy 50%
• Rate of Change 50%
• Bison 50%
• Numerical Model 50%
• Performance Level 50%
• Specific Impulse 50%
• Propulsion System 50%
• Multiphysics 50%
• Temperature Rate 50%
• Power Demand 50%
• Temperature Constant 50%
• Automated Control 50%
• Cool-down 50%
• Parameter Tuning 50%
• Burning Time 50%
• Proportional-integral-derivative Controller 50%
• Temperature Overshoot 50%
• Reactivity Coefficients 50%
• Full Core 50%
• Control Drum 50%
• Cooling Requirements 50%
• Novel Type 50%
• Non-constant 50%

Engineering

• Decay Heat 100%
• Control Strategy 50%
• Numerical Model 50%
• Specific Impulse 50%
• Propulsion System 50%
• Change Rate 50%
• Derivative Controller 50%
• Energy Demand 50%
• Burn Time 50%
• Cooling Requirement 50%

Earth and Planetary Sciences

• Real Time 100%
• Numerical Model 100%
• Energy Demand 100%