Element of nuclear safety : Research reactors / / Jean Couturier, Yéhia Hassan, Emmanuel Grolleau

• Record Nr.: UNISA996411332603316
• Autore: Couturier Jean
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Les Ulis : , : EDP Sciences, , [2021]; ©2019
• ISBN: 2-7598-2426-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Collana: Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire
• Soggetti: SCIENCE / Radiation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Main contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Foreword -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part 1 General overview of research reactors at international level -- Chapter 2 The different types of research reactors, overall global situation, uses and associated risks -- Chapter 3 Aspects of the design and safety demonstration of research reactors at international level -- Chapter 4 International experience feedback for research reactors -- Part 2 Research reactors in France -- Chapter 5 Evolution of the French research reactor "fleet" -- Chapter 6 Stakeholders and organization of research reactor safety in France -- Chapter 7 Safety principles for French research reactors -- Chapter 8 The reference accidents selected for French research reactors -- Chapter 9 Maintaining compliance with the applicable requirements - Safety Reviews -- Chapter 10 Operating experience feedback from French research reactors -- Chapter 11 Overview of simulation software used in design studies and safety analyses for French research reactors
• Sommario/riassunto: This publication gives a global overview of the diversity and complementarity of research reactors, some of which have been or are still being used to conduct experiments that are essential for the development and operation of nuclear power reactors, including in relation to safety issues. This work highlights the many uses of these reactors, which have very different designs, use highly varied quantities of radioactive substances with varying levels of risk for safety and ; radiation protection, and which - in many cases because they are old or have been shut down - require appropriate measures to control the ageing or obsolescence of some of their equipment, as well as, on an organisational and human level, to ensure that they continue to be operated safely. For some research reactors, safety and radiation protection aspects must be considered, taking into account that two types of operators are present at the same time within these reactors: reactor operating personnel and operators in charge of experimental devices using neutrons from the reactor for fundamental or applied research purposes. There are two specific chapters on the safety standards established under the aegis of the IAEA for research reactors and on serious accidents, notably those involving criticality and reactivity, in research reactors. The second part of the work focuses on French research reactors, including the regulations and official documents applicable to these reactors, on lessons learned in France from significant events and accidents - as well as abroad, such as the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in 2011 - on the consideration of reactivity accidents in the design of French research reactors, and on the ten-yearly safety reviews carried out in France.

Finite difference methods in financial engineering : a partial differential equation approach / / Daniel J. Duffy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911020464903321
• Autore: Duffy Daniel J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, c2006
• ISBN: 9786610411207; 9781118856482; 1118856481; 9781118673447; 1118673441; 9781280411205; 1280411201; 9780470858837; 0470858834
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (441 p.)
• Collana: Wiley finance series
• Classificazione: QK 660; SK 980
• Disciplina: 332.60151
• Soggetti: Financial engineering - Mathematics; Derivative securities - Prices - Mathematical models; Finite differences; Differential equations, Partial - Numerical solutions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-416) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 0 Goals of this Book and Global Overview; Contents; 0.1 What is this Book?; 0.2 Why has this Book Been Written?; 0.3 For Whom is this Book Intended?; 0.4 Why Should I Read this Book?; 0.5 The Structure of this Book; 0.6 What this Book Does Not Cover; 0.7 Contact, Feedback and More Information; Part I The Continuous Theory Of Partial DifferentialI Equations; 1 An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations; 1.1 Introduction and Objectives; 1.2 Two-Point Boundary Value Problem; 1.2.1 Special Kinds of Boundary Condition; 1.3 Linear Boundary Value Problems; 1.4 Initial Value Problems; 1.5 Some Special Cases1.6 Summary and Conclusions; 2 An ; Introduction to Partial Differential Equations; 2.1 Introduction and Objectives; 2.2 Partial Differential Equations; 2.3 Specialisations; 2.3.1 Elliptic Equations; 2.3.2 Free Boundary Value Problems; 2.4 Parabolic Partial Differential Equations; 2.4.1 Special Cases; 2.5 Hyperbolic Equations; 2.5.1 Second-Order Equations; 2.5.2 First-Order Equations; 2.6 Systems of Equations; 2.6.1 Parabolic Systems; 2.6.2 First-Order Hyperbolic Systems; 2.7 Equations Containing Integrals; 2.8 Summary and Conclusions; 3 Second-Order Parabolic Differential Equations3.1 Introduction and Objectives; 3.2 Linear Parabolic Equations; 3.3 The Continuous Problem; 3.4 The Maximum Principle for Parabolic Equations; 3.5 A Special Case: One-Factor Generalised Black-Scholes Models; 3.6 Fundamental Solution and the Green's Function; 3.7 Integral Representation of the Solution of Parabolic PDEs; 3.8 Parabolic Equations in One Space Dimension; 3.9 Summary and Conclusions; 4 An Introduction to the Heat Equation in One Dimension; 4.1 Introduction and Objectives; 4.2 Motivation and Background; 4.3 The Heat Equation and Financial Engineering4.4 The Separation of Variables Technique; 4.4.1 Heat Flow in a Road with Ends Held at Constant Temperature; 4.4.2 Heat Flow in a Rod Whose Ends are at a Specified Variable Temperature; 4.4.3 Heat Flow in an Infinite Rod; 4.4.4 Eigenfunction Expansions; 4.5 Transformation Techniques for the Heat Equation; 4.5.1 Laplace Transform; 4.5.2 Fourier Transform for the Heat Equation; 4.6 Summary and Conclusions; 5 An Introduction to the Method of Characteristics; 5.1 Introduction and Objectives; 5.2 First-Order Hyperbolic Equations; 5.2.1 An Example; 5.3 Second-Order Hyperbolic Equations5.3.1 Numerical Integration Along the Characteristic Lines; 5.4 Applications to Financial Engineering; 5.4.1 Generalisations; 5.5 Systems of Equations; 5.5.1 An Example; 5.6 Propagation of Discontinuities; 5.6.1 Other Problems; 5.7 Summary and Conclusions; Part II FiniteI DifferenceI Methods: The Fundamentals; 6 An Introduction to the Finite Difference Method; 6.1 Introduction and Objectives; 6.2 Fundamentals of Numerical Differentiation; 6.3 Caveat: Accuracy and Round-Off Errors; 6.4 Where are Divided Differences Used in Instrument Pricing?; 6.5 Initial Value Problems
• Sommario/riassunto: The world of quantitative finance (QF) is one of the fastest growing areas of research and its practical applications to derivatives pricing problem. Since the discovery of the famous Black-Scholes equation in the 1970's we have seen a surge in the number of models for a wide range of products such as plain and exotic options, interest rate derivatives, real options and many others. Gone are the days when it was possible to price these derivatives analytically. For most problems we must resort to some kind of approximate method. In this book we employ partial differential equations (PDE) to