NE 306: Designing for Energy Transport

Course Syllabus - Spring 1998
Course Title:  Designing for Energy Transport
Course Number:  306
Professor: A. Ruggles
Nuclear Engineering Department
312 Pasqua Engineering Building
Ph: 423-974-7563 Fax: 423-974-0668
E-mail: aruggles@utk.edu

Course Description and Goals:
Impart a working knowledge of fluid flow and heat transfer important to conventional US Nuclear Electric Generation Stations.

Text:   J.P. Holman, Heat Transfer, McGraw-Hill.  Also Todreas and Kazimi, Nuclear Systems 1, Hemisphere.

Elements of Design
Heat Exchangers
Boiling Flow and Heat Transfer, 1-D
Condensation/Evaporation
Critical Compressible Flows
Instrumentation

Two in-class exams, 15% each
Design Project, Phase 1 - 15%, Phase 2 - 35%
Homework, 20%

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