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125 01 Advanced Reactor Theory Neutron transport equation – One speed transport theory – Solution of the transport equation by multigroup methods – Perturbation theory – Neutron thermalization and resonance absorption.
125 02 Neutron Transport Theory Transport equation – Exact solutions for simple-modeled systems – Nonlinear transport equation – Approximate solutions of the transport equation.
125 03 Advanced Reactor Design Review of available cross section libraries – Modal and nodal models for multigroup-multidimensional diffusion equation – Absorption and criticality search – Numerical acceleration techniques in reactor design.
125 04 Advanced Nuclear Power Stations Fast reactors theory – Fast reactors technology – Fusion reactors theory – Fusion reactors technology – Different reactor systems – Review of reliability concepts – Optimal maintenance schedule – Man-machine interference.
125 05 Interaction of Radiation with Matter Theory of electromagnetic interactions – Theory of atomic collisions – Passage of high energy charged particles through matter – Effect of radiation on materials: Hardness, Brittleness, Fracture, Void swelling and irradiation creep.
125 06 Spent Fuel Management & Disposal Spent fuel arising – Handling of spent fuel – Spent fuel storage design consideration – Storage in water-filled pools – Storage in dry environment – Transport of spent fuel – Safeguards of spent fuel – Underground disposal of spent fuel – Fuel retrievability.
125 07 Isotope Separation Light elements separation – Deuterium production processes and plants – Number of stages in separation processes – Heavy element separation – Uranium enrichment – Uranium separation by gaseous diffusion – Uranium centrifugal separation – Mass diffusion – Uranium separation by laser.
125 08 Gas-Solid Reactions Single particle reactions – Reactions of nonporous solids – Reactions of porous solids – Reactions between solids through gaseous intermediates – Gas-solid reactions in multiparticle systems – Experimental techniques for the study of gas-solid reactions – Gas-solid reactions of industrial importance.
125 09 Materials Characterization Techniques Principles of materials characterization – Sample preparation – Electron beam instruments – Electron-specimen interactions – Interpretation of diffraction information.
125 10 Nuclear Fuel Management Introduction to computational methods and theory – In-core fuel management using computer packages – Fuel management in different reactor systems – Optimization methods.
125 11 Radiation Damage in Metals Nature of disordered metals – Production of point defects – Mobility of point defects – Defect clusters in irradiated metals – Effect of irradiation induced defects on the mechanical properties of metals – The collision cascade – Computer experiment – Formation of binary collision approximation – The collision cascade and large displacements – Annealing and annihilation of defects – Ionic self irradiation.
125 12 Waste Management Production of nuclear waste – Strategies for waste disposal – Engineered multibarrier system – Waste-rock interactions – Isotope migration – Disposal sites – Burial technology – Study of burial site – Waste solidification, packaging, and transportation – Radionuclide transport models for shallow land burial sites monitoring.
125 13 Nuclear Engineering Materials Properties of U metal, U and Pu oxides – Crystal structure – Stoichiometry – Defects and fabrication – Fuel element thermal properties – Fuel chemistry – Solid fission products – Swelling and fission gas bubbles – Void swelling and creep – Properties of nuclear fuel – Fuel design for different reactors – Simulation of fuel performance.
125 14 Advanced Heat Transfer in Nuclear Reactors Heat transfer in reactor elements – Mixed two phase flow – Boiling – Numerical methods in heat transfer (Finite element and finite difference).
125 15 Boundary Layer Theory Continuity, momentum and energy equations in fluid flows – Scale and dimensional analysis – Laminar boundary layer flow – Laminar duct flow – Laminar natural convection – Natural convection in enclosures – Transition to turbulence – Turbulence modeling – Flow in porous media – Mass transfer in boundary layer.
125 16 Advanced Automatic Control Theory State variable approach – Advanced modeling techniques – Digital control systems – System identification for time and frequency responses – Reduced order observer design – Introduction to adaptive control systems.
125 17 Reactor Dynamics Reactor dynamic using point kinetic equation – Reactor linearized models – Reactor feedback models – Spatially dependent reactor kinetic equation – Analysis of control rod ejection accident using point kinetic and one dimensional diffusion equation – Calculation of kinetic parameters.
125 18 Nuclear Reactor Safety Types of plants layout and physical structure – Concept of reactor protection system – Safety concepts – Introduction to reliability and fault, event tree analysis – Introduction to engineering safety feature systems – Markov chain for large multiplex system – Multi attribute utility theorem and PSF for human errors – Introduction to artificial intelligence and operator machine interface problems.
125 19 Environmental & Economic Aspects of Nuclear Energy Radiations releases from nuclear power plants (Source term, dispersion, and dose assessment calculations) – Thermal energy releases – Compatibility of nuclear plants with environmental architecture – Environmental data base analysis linked with dispersion codes – Review of International codes.
125 20 Applied Artificial Intelligence Knowledge base description – Expert system and design using multiattribute utility theorem – Primary facts, interference, rules, and engine design – Intermediate goals, final goals and messages – Introduction to PROLOG and LISP – Introduction to neural networks and system transient identification.
125 21 Advanced Radiation Detection Techniques Slow neutron detection – Fast neutron detection methods – Cerenkov detectors – Liquid ionization and proportional counters – Photographic emulsion – Track-etch detectors – Foil activation multichannel analyzer – low background detection.
125 22 Reactor Experiments Introductory experiment – Reactor operation experiments – Reactor engineering and technology experiments –Reactor physics experiments – Neutron physics experiments.
125 23 Radiation Protection & Shield Design Radiation sources – Radiation dosimetry – Recommended radiation levels – Determination of absorbed dose in man – Biological radiation effects on man – Applications of the numerical methods for the attenuation of gamma rays and neutron attenuation – Basic shielding theory – Shielding the reactor core – Shielding the reactor cooling system – Plant layout and the other factors affecting total shield design.
125 24 Health Physics Introduction and historical review of the interaction of radiation with matter – Operational dosimetry – Shielding – Radiation detection theory – Radiation monitoring of personnel – Biological effects of radiation – Internal, external exposure and environmental dispersion.
125 25 Advanced Applications of Nuclear Radiation Radioguaging – Radiography – Systems analysis – Oil logging – Radiation detectors – Nuclear medicine – Radiation therapy – Computer tomography – Imaging techniques.
125 26 Advanced Plasma Physics Development of plasma kinetic theory – Collision processes – Orbit and hydrodynamic theory – Equilibrium and stability – Nonlinear effects – Waves in cold and hot plasmas – Landau damping – Cyclotron damping – Magnetohydrodynamic equilibria and instabilities – Introduction to nonlinear processes.
125 27 Plasma Processing Plasma source ion implantation – Plasma etching – Plasma coatings – Plasma extractive metallurgy – Plasma chemistry – Electrical discharges in gases and arc technology.
125 28 Electromagnetic Theory Review of topics in electrodynamics and special relativity – Ionization and energy loss during scattering of charged particles – Radiation from charged particles including Bremsstrahlung, Cerenkov, and Synchrotron radiation – Thompson scattering of electromagnetic waves by charged particles.
125 29 Laser Physics and Applications Interactions of light – Photons – Physical principles of laser – Rate equations for the laser – Types of lasers – Communication by laser – Photography by laser – Industrial and medical applications – Laser and thermonuclear fusion.
125 30 Digital Simulation Techniques System modeling of engineering systems – Implicit and explicit integration routines – Setting of the ordinary differential equations for system governing equations – Large scale system with delayed operator –Introduction of hybrid and electronic simulation – Graphical and interactive code structure for large simulation package – Fuzzy controller and data acquisition.
125 31 Introduction to Superconductivity Electrical and magnetic properties of superconductors – Thermodynamics transport properties and type II superconductivity – Fundamentals of superconductive magnet design – Superconducting materials – Fundamentals of cryogenics – Heat transfer and fluid mechanics of cryogenic liquids – Thermophysical properties of solids at low temperatures.
125 32 Solar Energy Engineering Radiation heat transfer – Solar power stations concept – Solar power stations technology – Materials for solar cells – Doping of crystalline silicon cells – CVD – Property changes by ion beams.
125 33 Energy Storage Techniques Concept of energy storage using superconductors – Cryogenic phenomena and its stability – Large scale magnets and its applications.
125 34 Mathematical & Statistical Methods in Nuclear Engineering Time dependent problems – Adjoint transport equation – Discrete ordinate method in one dimension – Curvilinear coordinates – Sets and probability – Random variables and probability distribution – Estimation theory – Curve fitting – Regression and correlation – Analysis of variance.
125 35 Charged Particles Accelerators Historical review to accelerators theory – Classical dynamics to thermal theory and relativistic mechanics – Types of accelerators – Calculations in orbital theory – Applications of accelerators – Synchrotron radiation sources.
125 36 Nuclear Explosions Fundamentals of peaceful nuclear explosions – Applications of nuclear explosions – Safety of nuclear explosions – National and international projects.
125 37 Applied Modeling Techniques in Nuclear Engineering Review of unified system of governing equations – Electronic analysis of engineering systems – Time and Laplace domain and relationship with frequency domain – Balance equation for mass, scale analysis in nuclear power plant models, and stiff system – Energy and momentum – Digital, analogue, electronic, and hybrid simulation techniques – Parity simulation techniques for different nuclear power plant systems – Data acquisition methods for NPP simulations and modeling – Modular structure for large scale system programming.
125 38 Monte Carlo Technique in Nuclear Engineering Monte Carlo method and its applications – Neutron transport – Plasma transport – Radiation transport – Nonlinear transport equation – Rarified gas dynamics – Time scale for collisions – Limitations of the method –Other applications of Monte Carlo solution of finite difference equations.
125 39 Advanced Programming Techniques Comparative analysis between different programming languages – Interference between languages – Characters, logical, complex, real assignment in a selected language – Interactive and modular programming – Training on how to use numerical recipes.
125 40 Ion Beam Mixing Ranges of ions in solids – Requirements for successful layer mixing – Dose and energy requirements for mixing bi-layer systems – Characterization of mixing – Applications of ion beam mixing.
125 41 Characterization Techniques of Solid Surfaces Importance of surface layer characterization – Properties of solid surfaces – Ion scattering spectroscopy (ISS) – Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) – Secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) – Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS) – Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) – Low energy electron diffraction (LEED).
125 42 Nondestructive Testing Principles of nondestructive testing – Nondestructive testing in the nuclear energy field – Eddy current methods and techniques – Ultrasonic methods and techniques – Radiation techniques.
125 43 Desalination Flash desalination – Multistage flash evaporation – Vapor compression desalination – Solar desalination – Freezing hydrate processes – Solvent extraction – Membrane processes – Reverse osmosis – Electrodialysis – Ion exchange processes – Desalination plant – Nuclear energy in desalination – Economics of desalination processes.
125 44 Numerical Methods in Nuclear Engineering Integration quadrature – Integrations of systems of ODE equations – Introduction to partial differential equations – Finite difference methods and schemes – Van Newmann stability analysis – Error propagation – Dispersion and Dissipation.
125 45 Conventional Environmental Pollution Pollution of air – Pollution of water – Pollution of soil – Inorganic pollutant – Organic pollutant – Pollution with heavy metals.
125 46 Nuclear Environmental Pollution Natural radioactive elements – Radioiodine pollution – Radiocesium and strontium pollution – Pollution with actinides – Pollution with short lived isotopes.
125 47 Environmental Protection Industrial waste treatment – Off gas treatment – Cleanup of polluted water resources – Reclamation of polluted soils – Decontamination – Other means of environmental protection.
125 48 Modeling of Environmental Pollution Modeling of air and water pollution – Diffusion of pollutants in soil – Global models of pollutant pathways – Application of pollution modeling – Comparison of models with measurements.
125 49 Course Name Radiation Detection Experiments Nuclear radiation measurements – Measurements of local dose – Monitoring personal dose – Measuring activity in water and air – Activity measurements in foods and other biological materials – Measurements of external and internal pollution – Determining the type of radiation – Measuring the half lives – Determining the radiation energy – Radiochemical methods.
125 50 Fusion Reactors Technology Fusion reactions – Plasma firing – Reactor components: the plasma, The sheath, heating, cooling, the magnet, system for fuel charging, vacuum, the limiter, converter – Magnetic confinement – Inertial confinement.
125 51 Applications of Solid State Physics Optical properties and excitons – Superconductivity – Dielectrics and ferroelectrics – Magnetic resonance and masers – Computer memories – Solid state devices – Point defects and alloys.
125 52 Research Project The student undertakes a study or a research project in a topic related to the field of his study in the diploma. This is done under the supervision of a department staff member.
125 53 Masters Research For the students working for the M.Sc. degree.
125 54 Doctor’s Research For the students working for the Ph.D. degree.