NUCLEAR REACTOR DYNAMICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: N E 405 , graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2020 Learning Outcomes: 1. Determine the behavior of the reactor power due to control element movement in the PRKE 1 group and 6 group models Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Examine the behavior of the reactor in the presence of reactivity feedback effects (Resonance behavior, Doppler Broadening, density effects) Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze the power and temperature level behaviors due to the rapid injection and sinusoidal inputs of reactivity using the Nordheim-Fuchs models Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze the stability of a reactor using the Routh and Nyquist stability criterion and the singe and two temperature models Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Examine numerical methods for the solution of the PRKEs and the reactor dynamics equations with feedback Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply the reactor dynamics equations with feedback to a reactor design Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Determine the behavior of the reactor power due to control element movement in the PRKE 1 group and 6 group models Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Examine the behavior of the reactor in the presence of reactivity feedback effects (Resonance behavior, Doppler Broadening, density effects) Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze the power and temperature level behaviors due to the rapid injection and sinusoidal inputs of reactivity using the Nordheim-Fuchs models Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze the stability of a reactor using the Routh and Nyquist stability criterion and the singe and two temperature models Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Examine numerical methods for the solution of the PRKEs and the reactor dynamics equations with feedback Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply the reactor dynamics equations with feedback to a reactor design Audience: Graduate