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Engineering Physics 712 - Advanced Nuclear Reactor Analysis

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This course was offered January to April, 2001.

Course description:

Neutron distributions; multi-group neutron diffusion; reactor core statics; cell calculations, space-time kinetics and dynamics; selected solution formulations and applications in simulation.

One lecture per week; second term
Prerequisite: EP4D3 or equivalent reactor physics course at a senior level covering multi-group diffusion theory statics and dynamics.
Lecturer: Dan Meneley, AECL Sheridan Park (905)-823-9060, x5079
Web page administrator: Bill Garland

Course Administration:

• Course Outline (pdf 12kb)

Course Notes:

The notes for the 2001 offering of the course are as follows
• Foreword and Table of Contents (pdf 12kb)
• Week 1 Introduction to the Dynamics of Power Reactors (pdf 77kb)
• Week 2 Dynamic Characteristics of CANDU Reactors (pdf 102kb)
• Week 3 Neutron Transport Equation (pdf 41kb)
• plus the old handwritten notes as below
• Chapter 0 - Table of Contents (pdf 146kb)
• Chapter 1 - Neutron Transport Equation (pdf 650kb)
• Chapter 2 - Genealogy of Approximations (pdf 603kb)
• Chapter 3 - Zen and the Art of Space-Time Kinetics (pdf 618kb)
• Chapter 4 - Generating Intuition (pdf 1845kb)
• Chapter 5 - Doing Time (pdf 3774kb)
• Chapter 6 - Twacking Through a Plethora of Cornucopia (pd. 1019kb)
• Chapter 7 - About A When It Is Non-constant (pdf 1075kb)
• Chapter 8 - Backword (pdf 537kb)
• Equation Summary (pdf 138kb)
• Appendix 1 (pdf 3509kb)
• Appendix 2 (pdf 2260kb)
• Bibliography (pdf 513kb)

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