Patent ID: 8041548
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of evaluating proposed solutions to a nuclear reactor constraint problem, comprising: providing an objective function definition generic to a constraint problem, configuring the generic objective function into a nuclear reactor constraint problem objective function having channel deformation of control blades as a constraint, receiving, for each proposed solution to the nuclear reactor constraint problem, a value of at least one variable in at least one credit term in the configured objective function at the processor, the credit term variable being related to the proposed solution; receiving, for each proposed solution to the nuclear reactor constraint problem, a value of at least one variable in at least one penalty term in the configured objective function at the processor, the penalty term variable being related to the proposed solution; generating, using the processor, a figure of merit for each of the proposed solutions to the nuclear reactor constraint problem based on the credit term variable and the penalty term variable using the configured objective function; and determining a desired one of the proposed solutions to the nuclear reactor constraint problem based on the generated figures of merit.