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Nuclear Engineering Concepts

General

• Thinking
  • Critical thinking
• Communication (oral and written)
• Organization and time management
• Laboratory Safety
• The Greek Alphabet
• Latin phrases - and other useful Latin information (such as date and number conversion)

Fundamental Physical Processes

• Diffusion
• Transport
• Reaction rates
• Force balances
• Statics
• Dynamics

Mathematics

• General
  • American Mathematical Society
  • Math on the Web - lots of great links.
  • Athabasca University Math Resource Page
  • Math review manual - brought to you by the Mathematics & Statistics department at McMaster University, for first year students.
  • Refresh Your Maths - brought to you by Nuclear Technology Education Consortium (NTEC) in the UK. Very good refresher for engineers getting back in the groove after being away from math for a few years.
  • The University of Sydney Math Learning Centre / Resources - Lots of nicely done basic math tutorials and links to other resources here.
• Calculus
  • Karl's Calculus Tutor - an excellent site.
  • Integral Tables - from Dr Dan Thomas, the Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Guelph.
  • The Integrator - from Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica.
  • Material derivative (wikipedia) (saved as a pdf 123kb).
• ODE
• PDE
• Numerical methods
  • Numerical methods links - very comprehensive site by Douglas N. Arnold at Penn State.
  • Numerical Methods for Engineers - a full fourth year course on-line by Dr. Rukmini Sriranganathan, formerly of Virginia Tech. Nicely done.
  • Process Modelling (pdf 266kb) and Numerical Methods (pdf 451kb) - excerpts from Engineering Physics 4D3/6D3 - Nuclear Reactor Analysis
• Statistics and probability
  • Probability Tools and Techniques (pdf 386kb) - Chapter 2 of Engineering Physics 714 - Nuclear Reactor Safety Design
  • Chapter 3 Statistics for Small Systems (pdf 158kb) and Chapter 4 Statistics for Systems of Many Elements (pdf 316kb) from from EP2H4 Thermodynamics
  • Bayes theorem
    • An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning - Bayes' Theorem for the curious and bewildered; an excruciatingly gentle introduction by Eliezer Yudkowsky
    • Probability Theory and Bayesian Belief Bayesian Networks
    • Bayes Theorem
    • Bayes Theorem explained (self playing class recording, exe 5Mb) by Bill Garland
• Laplace and other transforms
  • Fourier Transforms - Engineering Physics 3W04 Term II (1999/2000) course notes and links to other FT sites.

Measurement (general)

• Experimental design

Thermodynamics

• classical
• statistical

Fundamental Nuclear Processes

• Diffusion
• Transport
• Interaction rates and cross sections
• Elastic and inelastic Scattering
• Radioactive decay
• Nuclear reactions
• Shielding and attenuation

Radiation Detection

• A short note on counting statistics by Dr. Esam Hussein, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Brunswick.
• Detectors
• Radiation types and characteristics
  • The ABC's of Nuclear Science - A brief introduction sponsored by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Reactor Physics (covered in EP4D3/6D3 for the most part)

• Fission reactions
• Point kinetics
• Neutron diffusion
• Multigroup theory
• Xenon poisioning
• Reactor control
• Prompt jump
• Reactivity feedback mechanisms
• Fuel depletion and management
• Reactor design
• Numerical methods

Fluid Mechanics

• mass conservation
• momentum conservation
• energy conservation
• pressure drop and friction factors
• flow regimes and velocity profiles
• potential flow and boundary layer approximations
• viscous flow
• turbulent flow
• compressible flow
• flow diagnostics
• boundary conditions
• correlations
• modelling
• numerical methods

Heat Transfer

• basic equations (power / energy balance)
• conductive heat transfer
• convective heat transfer (forced and natural)
• radiative heat transfer
• boiling phenomena
• condensation phenomena
• heat exchangers
• correlations
• devices and examples
• numerical methods

Thermalhydraulics (covered in EP716 and EP715)

• General conservation equations
• homogeneous equilibrium model (HEM) model
• two-phase flow models
• flow regime maps
• flow boiling and CHF
• heat transport loops and design
• reactor safety analysis
• two-phase flow diagnostics
• numerical methods

Reactor Safety Analysis (covered in EP714)

• Philosophy
• Deterministic Analysis
• Probabilistic Analysis

Fusion Reactor Systems

• fusion reactions
• coulomb scattering
• electromagnetic hydrodynamics
• ion trajectories
• energy viability
• magnetic confinement
• inertial confinement
• fusion catalysis
• fusion-fission hybrids
• fusion reactor kinetics
• blanket systems
• fuel cycles
• plasma diagnostics
• plasma chemistry

Electricity and Magnetism

Electronics and Electrical Circuits

Materials

Optics