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Engineering of Nuclear Reactors

Subject: Engineering

Art: Not determined, Figure 7 of Radio-active substances, 1904 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Jacopo Buongiorno
Term: Fall 2015
Level: Graduate
What's inside: 12 exams · 12 solutions · 1 reading · 34 other files · 3 web pages
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Engineering of Nuclear Reactors

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Lecture 1: Course introduction Reactor types

Lecture 2: Reactor heat generation

Lecture 3: Thermal design principles Conservation equations

Lecture 4: Incompressible fluid, ideal gas and pure substance models Thermodynamic analysis of nuclear plants: Power cycle examples

Lecture 5: Thermodynamic analysis of nuclear plants: Containment

Lecture 6: Thermodynamic analysis of nuclear plants: Containment (cont.)

Lecture 7: Thermodynamic analysis of nuclear plants: Other examples

Lecture 8: Thermal analysis of fuel elements: Temperature distributions

Lecture 9: Thermal analysis of fuel elements: Burnup effects and maximum temperature in the core

Lecture 10: Quiz 1 : In class, open book, all material from Lecture 7

Lecture 11: Single phase thermal-hydraulics: Introduction

Lecture 12: Single phase thermal-hydraulics: Fluid dynamics and heat transfer

Lecture 13: Single phase thermal-hydraulics: Loop analysis, turbulence

Lecture 14: Two phase flow: Basic parameters and models

Lecture 15: Two phase flow: Pressure drop and instabilities

Lecture 16: Two phase flow: Critical flow

Lecture 17: Two phase heat transfer: Pool boiling

Lecture 18: Two phase heat transfer: Flow boiling

Lecture 19: Two phase heat transfer: Boiling crises and post-boiling-crisis heat transfer

Lecture 20: Two phase flow and heat transfer: Condensation

Lecture 21: Two phase flow and heat transfer: In-class demonstrations of flow regimes, instabilities, boiling, natural circulation

Lecture 22: Structural mechanics: Elasticity fundamentals and thin-shell theory

Lecture 23: Structural mechanics: Stress categorization and ASME Codes

Lecture 24: Structural mechanics: Creep, fatigue