IAEA0827 BEAT.

BEAT, Reactor Response and Reactivity Analysis

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, AUXILIARIES, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: BEAT.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
BEAT	IAEA0827/01	Tested	01-OCT-1976

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
IAEA0827/01	IBM 370 series	IBM 370 series

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3. NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED

Reactor response analysis for a given reactivity input, and the inverse problem.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION: Serial development (see report).

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM: Number of harmonics - 15.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME: 15 seconds for each case.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM: Transfer function, power and resolution in harmonics.

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8. RELATED OR AUXILIARY PROGRAMS: RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
IAEA0827/01	01-OCT-1976	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES

IAEA0827/01, included references:

- C. Grant and J. Porto:
  "BEAT" FORTRAN Code for Neutron Kinetics
  Comision Nacional de la Energia Atomica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- J. Porto:
  Analysis of Dynamic Perturbations in the RA-2 Zero Power Reactor
  Reprint from Annals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol. 1,
  pp. 567 to 572 (1974).

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS: 100 kbytes of main storage.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
IAEA0827/01	FORTRAN-IV

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: IBM 370 OS.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

ANY OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR

C. Grant and J. Porto
Comision Nacional de la Energia Atomica
Buenos Aires
Argentina

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

IAEA0827/01

File name	File description	Records
IAEA0827_01.001	SOURCE PROGRAM (F4) EBCDIC	650
IAEA0827_01.002	SAMPLE PROBLEM INPUT DATA	21
IAEA0827_01.003	SAMPLE PROBLEM PRINTED OUTPUT	66

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17. CATEGORIES

E. Space-Independent Kinetics

Keywords: perturbation theory, reactivity, transfer functions.