Overview of the Tolerance Limit Calculations with Application to TSURFER

To establish confidence in the results of computerized physics models, a key regulatory requirement is to develop a scientifically defendable process. The methods employed for confidence, characterization, and consolidation, or C3, are sta...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Hany Abdel-Khalik, Dongli Huang, Ugur Mertyurek, William Marshall, William Wieselquist
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	statistical tolerance limits Bayesian inference aleatory and epistemic uncertainties Technology T
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/66ca2c88523c4a7db9afa0e5fe5acd01
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:66ca2c88523c4a7db9afa0e5fe5acd01
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:66ca2c88523c4a7db9afa0e5fe5acd012021-11-11T15:53:25ZOverview of the Tolerance Limit Calculations with Application to TSURFER10.3390/en142170921996-1073https://doaj.org/article/66ca2c88523c4a7db9afa0e5fe5acd012021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/21/7092https://doaj.org/toc/1996-1073To establish confidence in the results of computerized physics models, a key regulatory requirement is to develop a scientifically defendable process. The methods employed for <i>confidence, characterization, and consolidation</i>, or <i>C<sup>3</sup></i>, are statistically involved and are often accessible only to avid statisticians. This manuscript serves as a pedagogical presentation of the <i>C<sup>3</sup></i> process to all stakeholders—including researchers, industrial practitioners, and regulators—to impart an intuitive understanding of the key concepts and mathematical methods entailed by <i>C<sup>3</sup></i>. The primary focus is on calculation of tolerance limits, which is the overall goal of the <i>C<sup>3</sup></i> process. Tolerance limits encode the confidence in the calculation results as communicated to the regulator. Understanding the <i>C<sup>3</sup></i> process is especially critical today, as the nuclear industry is considering more innovative ways to assess new technologies, including new reactor and fuel concepts, via an integrated approach that optimally combines modeling and simulation and minimal targeted validation experiments. This manuscript employs intuitive, analytical, numerical, and visual representations to explain how tolerance limits may be calculated for a wide range of configurations, and it also describes how their values may be interpreted. Various verification tests have been developed to test the calculated tolerance limits and to help delineate their values. The manuscript demonstrates the calculation of tolerance limits for TSURFER, a computer code developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for criticality safety applications. The goal is to evaluate the tolerance limit for TSURFER-determined criticality biases to support the determination of upper, subcritical limits for regulatory purposes.Hany Abdel-KhalikDongli HuangUgur MertyurekWilliam MarshallWilliam WieselquistMDPI AGarticlestatistical tolerance limitsBayesian inferencealeatory and epistemic uncertaintiesTechnologyTENEnergies, Vol 14, Iss 7092, p 7092 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	statistical tolerance limits Bayesian inference aleatory and epistemic uncertainties Technology T
spellingShingle	statistical tolerance limits Bayesian inference aleatory and epistemic uncertainties Technology T Hany Abdel-Khalik Dongli Huang Ugur Mertyurek William Marshall William Wieselquist Overview of the Tolerance Limit Calculations with Application to TSURFER
description	To establish confidence in the results of computerized physics models, a key regulatory requirement is to develop a scientifically defendable process. The methods employed for <i>confidence, characterization, and consolidation</i>, or <i>C<sup>3</sup></i>, are statistically involved and are often accessible only to avid statisticians. This manuscript serves as a pedagogical presentation of the <i>C<sup>3</sup></i> process to all stakeholders—including researchers, industrial practitioners, and regulators—to impart an intuitive understanding of the key concepts and mathematical methods entailed by <i>C<sup>3</sup></i>. The primary focus is on calculation of tolerance limits, which is the overall goal of the <i>C<sup>3</sup></i> process. Tolerance limits encode the confidence in the calculation results as communicated to the regulator. Understanding the <i>C<sup>3</sup></i> process is especially critical today, as the nuclear industry is considering more innovative ways to assess new technologies, including new reactor and fuel concepts, via an integrated approach that optimally combines modeling and simulation and minimal targeted validation experiments. This manuscript employs intuitive, analytical, numerical, and visual representations to explain how tolerance limits may be calculated for a wide range of configurations, and it also describes how their values may be interpreted. Various verification tests have been developed to test the calculated tolerance limits and to help delineate their values. The manuscript demonstrates the calculation of tolerance limits for TSURFER, a computer code developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for criticality safety applications. The goal is to evaluate the tolerance limit for TSURFER-determined criticality biases to support the determination of upper, subcritical limits for regulatory purposes.
format	article
author	Hany Abdel-Khalik Dongli Huang Ugur Mertyurek William Marshall William Wieselquist
author_facet	Hany Abdel-Khalik Dongli Huang Ugur Mertyurek William Marshall William Wieselquist
author_sort	Hany Abdel-Khalik
title	Overview of the Tolerance Limit Calculations with Application to TSURFER
title_short	Overview of the Tolerance Limit Calculations with Application to TSURFER
title_full	Overview of the Tolerance Limit Calculations with Application to TSURFER
title_fullStr	Overview of the Tolerance Limit Calculations with Application to TSURFER
title_full_unstemmed	Overview of the Tolerance Limit Calculations with Application to TSURFER
title_sort	overview of the tolerance limit calculations with application to tsurfer
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/66ca2c88523c4a7db9afa0e5fe5acd01
work_keys_str_mv	AT hanyabdelkhalik overviewofthetolerancelimitcalculationswithapplicationtotsurfer AT donglihuang overviewofthetolerancelimitcalculationswithapplicationtotsurfer AT ugurmertyurek overviewofthetolerancelimitcalculationswithapplicationtotsurfer AT williammarshall overviewofthetolerancelimitcalculationswithapplicationtotsurfer AT williamwieselquist overviewofthetolerancelimitcalculationswithapplicationtotsurfer
_version_	1718432984167612416

Overview of the Tolerance Limit Calculations with Application to TSURFER

Ejemplares similares