Thermodynamics of Fuel Elements
A Mathematical Approach
Gianluca Gregori
undergraduate student of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California at
Berkeley, as an EAP student from the University of Bologna, Italy
Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1730
Facolta' di Ingegneria, Universita' degli Studi,
Bologna, Via Risorgimento 2, 40136 Italy
Berkeley, 1 December 1994
This document provides a brief description of some important mathematical
techniques used for solving the heat transfer equation inside the fuel elements
of a nuclear reactor. Since the computer simulation has become a fundamental
tool in the analysis of the heat conduction, some numerical techniques are
here presented.