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Introduces nuclear engineering, covering reactor types, components, and thermodynamics, including pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors.
Explores isothermal reactor design, including stoichiometry, rate laws, and MATLAB simulations, highlighting the tradeoff between reactivity and pressure drop.
Explores reactivity variations in reactor technology, covering short-term, medium-term, and long-term changes, as well as means of control and important coefficients.
Explores neutron moderation, absorption, resonance scattering, and energy discretization in reactors, emphasizing the trade-offs between computational efficiency and accuracy.
Explores heat diffusion, temperature distribution, and thermal equilibrium in complex systems using the heat equation and Jupyter Notebook simulations.