Graduate Courses for Engineering, Nuclear (ENNU)
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ENNU 440 Nuclear Technology Laboratory (3 credits)
One hour of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: MATH240; and PHYS263.
Techniques of detecting and making measurements of nuclear or high
energy radiation. Radiation safety experiments. Both a subcritical
reactor and the swimming pool critical reactor are sources of
radiation.
ENNU 441 Nuclear Engineering Laboratory I (1 credits)
One hour of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite:
ENNU450.
Methods of radiation detection. Principles and uses of radiation
detectors and electronics. Geiger counting and statistical analysis.
Fundamentals of gamma spectroscopy.
ENNU 442 Nuclear Engineering Laboratory II (1 credits)
One hour of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite:
ENNU441. Corequisite: ENNU455.
Principles of radiation detectors and electronics. Use of Maryland
University Training Reactor for criticality experiments and activation
analysis. Fundamental heat transfer experiments. Data acquisition and
analysis.
ENNU 443 Nuclear Engineering Laboratory III (1 credits)
One hour of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites:
ENNU441 and ENNU442.
Heat transfer, fluid flow, boiling experiments. Applications to
reactor systems and components. Observation of thermalhydraulic
phenomena. Gamma shielding analysis.
ENNU 450 Nuclear Reactor Engineering I (3 credits)
Prerequisites: (MATH246 and {PHYS270 and 271 (Formerly PHYS263)}) or
permission of both department and instructor.
Elementary nuclear physics, reactor theory, and reactor energy
transfer. Steady-state and time-dependent neutron distributions in
space and energy. Conduction and convective heat transfer in nuclear
reactor systems.
ENNU 455 Nuclear Reactor Engineering II (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENNU450.
General plant design considerations including radiation hazards and
health physics, shielding design, nuclear power economics, radiation
effects on reactor materials, and various types of nuclear reactor
systems.
ENNU 465 Nuclear Reactor Systems Analysis (3 credits)
Prerequisites: (MATH246; and {PHY 270 and 271 (Formerly PHY 263)}; and
ENN 455) or permission of both department and instructor.
Power reactor (BWR,PWR,HTGR) system design and analysis. System
specifications and modes of operation. Plant documentation (PSAR,FSAR,
etc.). Piping and instrumentation drawings. Theory and application of
pump and piping calculations. Steam power plant cycles and
calculations. Steam plant equipment (turbines, heaters, condensers,
etc.) analysis.
ENNU 468 Research (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor. Repeatable
to 6 credits.
Investigation of a research project under the direction of one of the
staff members. Comprehensive reports are required.
ENNU 480 Reactor Core Design (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENNU450 or permission of both department and instructor.
Design of nuclear reactor cores based on a sequence of standard
computer codes. Thermal and epithermal cross sections, multigroup
diffusion theory in one and two dimensions and fine structure flux
calculations using transport theory.
ENNU 485 Nuclear Reactor Thermalhydraulics (3 credits)
Prerequisites: ENNU465, ENME321 and ENME342 or equivalent.
Thermalhydraulic response of nuclear power plant systems. Accident
analysis and impact of emergency systems. Boiling phenomena, nucleate
boiling, critical heat flux, condensation. Containment thermalhydraulic
analysis. Overview of principal thermalhydraulic computer codes.
ENNU 489 Special Topics in Nuclear Engineering (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if
content differs.
Selected topics of current importance in nuclear engineering.
ENNU 490 Nuclear Fuel and Power Management (3 credits)
Prerequisites: {ENNU460; and ENNU480} or permission of both department
and instructor.
Physics and economics of the nuclear fuel cycle utilizing existing
design codes. Mining, conversion, enrichment, fabrication, reprocessing
processes. Effects of plutonium recycle, in-core shuffling, fuel
mechanical design and power peaking on fuel cycle costs.
ENNU 495 Nuclear Engineering Systems Design (3 credits)
Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: ENNU455 and ENNU480 and Senior standing in nuclear
engineering.
Senior capstone design course. Major design experience that emphasizes
putting student's engineering knowledge into practice. Design topic is
one of current interest in nuclear engineering. Design methodology,
creativity, feasibility, reliability, and economic analyses of the
overall design required. Students work in teams, and present oral and
written design reports.
ENNU 605 Radiation Sciences (3 credits)
Nuclear structure and radioactivity; ionizing and non-ionizing
radiation; energy deposition and radiation dose; radiation interactions;
sources of radiation; radiation chemistry; applications of radiation -
accelerators, activation analysis, industrial and medical uses; radiatio
radiation processing and manufacturing.
ENNU 609 Seminar in Nuclear Engineering (1 credits)
ENNU 610 Radiation Transport (3 credits)
Characterization of radiation fields and sources; radiation
interactions; photon and neutron response functions; deterministic
transport theory - the transport equation, approximations, discrete
ordinates, integral transport method; Monte Carlo methods - stochastic
variables, simple analog Monte Carlo calculation, variance reduction
methods, non-analog methods.
ENNU 615 Transport Phenomena in Solids and Single-Phase Media (3 credits)
Also offered as ENME 632.
Momentum transport-viscosity, laminar flow, isothermal system equations,
transient and multidimensional analysis, axisymmetric laminar flows,
turbulent flows, phase transport; Energy transport-mechanisms,
temperature distributions, nonisothermal system equations, microscale
heat transfer, turbulent flow, phase transport; Mass
transport-mechanisms, concentration distributions, diffusion, interphase
transport.
ENNU 620 Mathematical Techniques for Engineering Analysis and Modeling (3 credits)
Also offered as ENRE 620.
Probability and probability distributions; statistics; ordinary
differential equations; linear algebra and vectors; Laplace transform;
Fourier analysis; boundary value problems; series solutions to
differential equations; partial differential equations; numerical
methods.
ENNU 625 Advanced Thermodynamics (3 credits)
Also offered as ENME 633.
Equilibrium and state quantities; thermodynamic laws; phase transitions;
chemical reactions; potentials; entropy; ensemble theory; Boltzmann
statistics; density operators; ideal and real gases; critical point
phenomena; second law.
ENNU 631 Thermal Aspects of Nuclear Systems (3 credits)
Prerequisites: ENNU 605, ENNU 620, ENNU 625.
Light water reactor systems; heat generation and thermal design
principles; thermodynamics of nuclear energy conversion systems -nonflow
and steady flow first and second law applications, transient flow first
law applications, containment response.
ENNU 632 Thermohydraulics in Nuclear Systems (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENNU 631.
Thermal analysis of fuel elements; heat conduction; thermal properties;
temperature distribution; heat channel transient analysis; flow loops -
steady state and transient, single and two phase; scaling methodologies;
core and subchannel analysis; two-phase flow instabilities;
uncertainties in thermal analysis.
ENNU 633 Convective Transport Phenomena in Single- and Multi-Phase Systems (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENNU 631.
Single medium - single phase systems, two-phase systems; Two media -
solid-fluid systems: continuous interface, large interfacial area,
fluid-fluid systems; Three media - solid-solid-fluid systems, solid-
liquid-gas systems.
ENNU 643 Radiation Processing in Advanced Manufacturing (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENNU 641.
Radiation processing facilities for industrial production - electron
beam, gamma, x-ray; types of electron beam machines; radiation
processing - yields, G-values, throughput, efficiency; readiation in
advanced manufacturing; radiation sensors and dosimetry; sterilization
of industrial products; radiation-physical technology.
ENNU 648 Special Problems in Nuclear Engineering (1-16 credits)
ENNU 649 Selected Topics in Nuclear Engineering (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if
content differs.
Topics of current interest in nuclear engineering.
ENNU 651 Risk and Performance Based Technologies (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENNU 605, ENNU 620, ENNU 625. Also offered as ENRE 670.
Why study risk, sources of risk, probabilistic risk assessment
procedure, factors affecting risk acceptance, statistical risk
acceptance analysis, psychometric risk acceptance, perception of risk,
comparison or risks, consequence analysis, risk benefit assessment. Risk
analysis performed for light water reactors, chemical industry, and
dams. Class projects on risk management concepts.
ENNU 652 Principles of Reliability Analysis (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENNU 651. Also offered as ENRE 602.
Principal methods of reliability analysis, including fault tree and
reliability block diagrams; Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA);
event tree construction and evaluation; reliability data collection and
analysis; methods of modeling systems for reliability analysis. Focus on
problems related to process industries, fossil-fueled power plant
availability, and other systems of concern to engineers.
ENNU 653 Mechanical reliability of Materials (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENNU 651.
Introduction to engineering materials; atomic structure; diffusion;
defects; phase equilibria; kinetics and microstructures; deformations;
fracture; materials testing; fatigue and creep; thermal properties;
failure mechanisms; fractography; failure modeling.
ENNU 655 Radiation Engineering (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor.
An analysis of such radiation applications as synthesizing chemicals,
preserving foods, control of industrial processes, design of
irradiation installations. E.G., Cobalt 60 gamma ray sources,
electronuclear machine arrangement, and chemonuclear reactors.
ENNU 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6 credits)
ENNU 898 Pre-Candidacy Research (1-8 credits)
ENNU 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8 credits)
