Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 46 / Number 3 / December 1971 / Pages 385-393
Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE71-A22375
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This paper demonstrates the application of a nonlinear programming technique for the calculation of the optimal control of a nuclear reactor with explicit inequality constraints applied to the controlled input. Accurate numerical solution of the reactor dynamics is emphasized and a number of numerical examples are presented which illustrate the general utility of the optimal control procedure.