Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics An Introduction to Nuclear Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow

The nuclear power industry in the world today -- The pressurized water reactor -- The boiling water reactor -- Fast reactors, gas reactors, and military reactors -- Thermal energy production in nuclear power plants -- The laws of thermodynamics -- Thermodynamic properties and equations of state -- The nuclear steam supply system -- Reactor thermal cycles -- The laws of heat transfer -- Heat removal from nuclear fuel rods -- Time dependent nuclear heat transfer -- Nuclear reactor fluid mechanics -- Fluid statics and fluid dynamics -- The conservation equations of fluid mechanics -- Single phase flow in nuclear power plants -- Laminar and turbulent flow with friction -- Core and fuel assembly fluid flow -- Reactor coolants, coolant pumps, and power turbines -- Single phase nuclear heat transfer -- Correlations for single phase nuclear heat transfer -- Natural convection in nuclear power plants -- Fundamentals of two phase flow in nuclear power plants -- Two phase nuclear heat transfer -- Heat transfer correlations for advanced two phase nuclear heat transfer -- Core temperature fields -- Nuclear hot channel factors, the critical heat flux, and the dnbr -- Thermal design limits, operating limits, and safety limits -- Equilibrium and non-equilibrium flows, critical flow, and choke flow -- Reactor accidents, dbas, and locas -- Flow oscillations, density waves, and hydrodynamic instabilities -- Containment buildings and their function -- particle transport and entrainment during reactor accidents -- Response of a containment building to a reactor LOCA.