Thermal hydraulics in water-cooled nuclear reactors

An attempt is made in the Book to provide a vision of nuclear thermal-hydraulics as it appears following more than half-a-century development. The idea is to cover from fundamentals to applications. This implies the consideration of a universe of topics, as discussed in Chapter 1, which may need an encyclopedia rather than a book. So, a window is opened to describe selected elements with emphasis to phenomena and basic principle equations on the side of fundamentals and nuclear reactors accident scenarios on the side of applications. Currently system thermal-hydraulics codes are used to predict accident scenarios in nuclear reactors. Possibly in some future date computational fluid-dynamics codes (or sets of equations ready to be solved by computers) could be able to predict similar accident scenarios. In this respect, the computer codes constitute one of the central elements in the Book.