Performance evaluation of PSO and GA in PWR core loading pattern optimization

▶ The performance of both GA and PSO methods in optimizing of a PWR core are adequate. ▶ It seems GA arrives to its final parameter value in a fewer generation than the PSO. ▶ The computation time for GA is higher than PSO. ▶ The GA-2 and PSO-CFA algorithms perform better in comparison to GA-1 and PSO-IWA.