Objectives:
- To be familiarised with various reactor types and their main design and operational characteristics.
- To learn how to estimate the volumetric heat generation rate in fission reactor cores under normal operation and shutdown conditions.
- To learn how to analyse the thermal performance of nuclear fuel elements.
- To learn the basic fluid mechanics of single phase reactor cooling systems.
- To learn to calculate pressure drop in reactor systems, including tube bundles, and spacer grids.
- To learn to analyse the heat transfer characteristics of single phase reactor cooling systems.
- To learn the basic fluid mechanics of two-phase systems, including flow regime maps, void-quality relations, pressure drop, and critical flow.
- To learn the fundamentals of boiling heat transfer, and its implications for reactor design.
- To learn the fundamentals of core thermal design, with attention to design uncertainty analysis and hot channel factors.
List of topics
- reactor heat generation
- transport equations (single-phase & two-phase flow)
- thermal analysis of fuel elements
- (single-phase fluid mechanics and heat transfer)-usually already known
- two-phase flow dynamics
- two-phase heat transfer
- single heated channel; steady state analysis
- single heated channel; transient analysis
- flow loops
- utilisation of established codes
References
Todreas, N.E. and Kazimi, M.S. Nuclear System I: Thermal Hydraulic Fundamentals, Hemisphere Publishing Corp., New York, 1990.
Todreas, N. E. and Kazimi, M.S. Nuclear Systems II: Elements of Thermal Hydraulic Design, Hemisphere Publishing Corp., New York, 1990.
Cumo, M. Impianti Nucleari, UTET,Torino, 1976.
Amplitude and teaching methods:
- 2 t.m.
- SCK•CEN guidance for demonstrations with codes