Textbooks

Recommended Texts
J. Duderstadt, L.J. Hamilton, Nuclear Reactor Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, 1976 [DH]
D. Hetrick, Dynamics of Nuclear Reactors, Taylor & Francis Group, 1993 [H]
N.E. Todreas, M.S. Kazimi, Nuclear Systems, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012 [TK]
N. S. Nise, Control Systems Engineering, Wiley, 2010 [N]
M.M. El-Wakil, Nuclear Energy Conversion, American Nuclear Society, 1992 [W]
P.P.G. Dyke, An Introduction to Laplace Tranforms and Fourier Series, Springer, 2000 [D]
K. J. Aström, R. M. Murray, Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and
Engineers, Princeton University Press, 2008 [AM]
S. J. Farlow, Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers, Dover, 1993 [F]
F. Oberhettinger, L. Badii, Tables of Laplace Transforms, Springer, 1980 [OB]
Joseph Di Stefano III, Allen R. Stubberud, Ivan J. Williams, Schaum’s Outline of
Feedback and Control Systems, McGraw-Hill, 2013 [DSW]

TOPICS REFERENCES PROBLEMS

[N] Section 2.1

[D] Chapters 1-2-3

[N] Chapter 2 – Problems
1-8
Laplace transform [F] Lesson 13
[DSW] Chapter 4
[OB]

[N] Chapter 2 – Problems

9-20; 40-69

[N] Chapter 3 – Problems

Elements of linear system
theory – Transfer function -
State Space approach -
Stability
1-32
[N] Chapters 1-2-3-4
[N] Chapter 4 – Problems
[N] Sections 6.1 – 6.5
1-60
[AM] Chapters 4-5-8
[N] Chapter 6 – Problems
1-54

[DSW] Chapters 4-6-7

[DSW] Chapter 5 –
Problems 5.1-5.8
TOPICS REFERENCES PROBLEMS

[N] Chapter 5 – Problems

1-60

Block Diagrams - [N] Chapter 5 [DSW] Chapters 7-8

Signal-Flow Graphs-Root
Locus Techniques [N] Chapter 8 [N] Chapter 8 – Problems
1-50

[DSW] Chapters 14

[DH] Chapter 6 –
Problems 6.1 – 6.30
[DH] Sections 6.1 – 6.2
[H] Chapter 1 – Problems
Nuclear reactor kinetics 1.1 – 1.5
[H] Chapters 1-2
[H] Chapter 2 – Problems
2.1 – 2.21

[DH] Sections 6.3 – 6.4 – 6.5
[DH] Chapter 14
Nuclear reactor dynamics
[H] Sections 5.1 – 5.2 – 5.3 – 5.4
[H] Chapter 8
[DH] Chapter 6 –
Problems 6.31 – 6.36
[DH] Chapter 14 –
Problems 14.1 – 14.15
[H] Chapter 1 – Problems
5.1 – 5.10

[DH] Chapter 12 [DH] Chapter 12 –

Problems 12.1 – 12.29
Thermal-Hydraulics [TK] Chapter 7
[TK] Chapter 7 –
Problems 7.1 - 7.8