Intor: Critical Analysis of Intor-like Designs

Neutronics Analysis of Graphite-moderated Solid Breeder Blanket Designs for Intor

An In-depth analysis of the INT05 tritium-production—blanket design Is presented. A ternary system of solid silicate breeder, lead neutron multiplier, and graphite moderator is explored primarily from safety and blanket tritium-inventory considerations. Lithiumsilicate (Li2Si03) bleeder systems are studied along 2 with water (H2P/D2O) and Type 316 stainless steel as coolant and structural mater...

Alternative Divertor Collector Systems for Intor* Pfc/rr-80-29

Distance Preserving Embeddings for General n-Dimensional Manifolds

Low dimensional embeddings of manifold data have gained popularity in the last decade. However, a systematic finite sample analysis of manifold embedding algorithms largely eludes researchers. Here we present two algorithms that embed a general n-dimensional manifold intoR (where d only depends on some key manifold properties such as its intrinsic dimension, volume and curvature) that guarantee...

Compositional Synthesis of State-Dependent Switching Control

We present a correct-by-design method of state-dependent control synthesis for sampled switching systems. Given a target region R of the state space, our method builds a capture set S and a control that steers any element of S intoR. The method works by iterated backward reachability fromR. The method is also used to synthesize a recurrence control that makes any state of R return to R infinite...

Asymptotic Expansions for the Laplace Approximations of Sums of Banach Space-valued Random Variables

Let Xi, i ∈ N, be i.i.d. B-valued random variables, where B is a real separable Banach space. Let Φ be a smooth enough mapping from B intoR. An asymptotic evaluation of Zn = E(exp(nΦ( ∑n i=1 Xi/n))), up to a factor (1 + o(1)), has been gotten in Bolthausen [Probab. Theory Related Fields 72 (1986) 305–318] and Kusuoka and Liang [Probab. Theory Related Fields 116 (2000) 221–238]. In this paper, a...