Energy Engineering

Educational objectives

Lectures are delivered in Italian or English according to the audience. Study material is provided only in English. One office
hour per week, communicated at the onset of the course, is reserved for private meetings with students. After successfully
undertaking the course, the student will acquire the following competences:
• Understanding the specific thermal-hydraulic phenomena associated to liquid metals that are relevant for industrial
applications
• Performing back-of-the-envelope engineering calculations (pressure drop, heat transfer coefficient, etc.) for liquid
metal flows in various prototypical problems

• To be able to characterize and critically assess the thermal performance of a liquid metal component in an energy
engineering system
• To be able to perform computational fluid-dynamic simulations to support the design of a liquid metal component
The course is taught over 15 hours of frontal lectures and 15 hours of laboratory sessions, for a total of 30 hours of lectures
and, thus, upon completion, it awards 3 ETCS/CFU.

Educational objectives

The objective of the course is to present the fundamental ideas underlying the behavior of fully ionized plasmas, and to provide a quantitative understanding of the physical principles at the basis of the magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas, focusing on the peculiarities of
the tokamak device.

Educational objectives

Lectures are delivered in Italian or English according to the audience. Study material is provided only in English. One office
hour per week, communicated at the onset of the course, is reserved for private meetings with students. After successfully
undertaking the course, the student will acquire the following competences:
• Understanding the specific thermal-hydraulic phenomena associated to liquid metals that are relevant for industrial
applications
• Performing back-of-the-envelope engineering calculations (pressure drop, heat transfer coefficient, etc.) for liquid
metal flows in various prototypical problems

• To be able to characterize and critically assess the thermal performance of a liquid metal component in an energy
engineering system
• To be able to perform computational fluid-dynamic simulations to support the design of a liquid metal component
The course is taught over 15 hours of frontal lectures and 15 hours of laboratory sessions, for a total of 30 hours of lectures
and, thus, upon completion, it awards 3 ETCS/CFU.

Educational objectives

Lectures are delivered in Italian or English according to the audience. Study material is provided only in English. One office
hour per week, communicated at the onset of the course, is reserved for private meetings with students. After successfully
undertaking the course, the student will acquire the following competences:
• Understanding the specific thermal-hydraulic phenomena associated to liquid metals that are relevant for industrial
applications
• Performing back-of-the-envelope engineering calculations (pressure drop, heat transfer coefficient, etc.) for liquid
metal flows in various prototypical problems

• To be able to characterize and critically assess the thermal performance of a liquid metal component in an energy
engineering system
• To be able to perform computational fluid-dynamic simulations to support the design of a liquid metal component
The course is taught over 15 hours of frontal lectures and 15 hours of laboratory sessions, for a total of 30 hours of lectures
and, thus, upon completion, it awards 3 ETCS/CFU.

Educational objectives

Lectures are delivered in Italian or English according to the audience. Study material is provided only in English. One office
hour per week, communicated at the onset of the course, is reserved for private meetings with students. After successfully
undertaking the course, the student will acquire the following competences:
• Understanding the specific thermal-hydraulic phenomena associated to liquid metals that are relevant for industrial
applications
• Performing back-of-the-envelope engineering calculations (pressure drop, heat transfer coefficient, etc.) for liquid
metal flows in various prototypical problems

• To be able to characterize and critically assess the thermal performance of a liquid metal component in an energy
engineering system
• To be able to perform computational fluid-dynamic simulations to support the design of a liquid metal component
The course is taught over 15 hours of frontal lectures and 15 hours of laboratory sessions, for a total of 30 hours of lectures
and, thus, upon completion, it awards 3 ETCS/CFU.

Educational objectives

The objective of the course is to present the fundamental ideas underlying the behavior of fully ionized plasmas, and to provide a quantitative understanding of the physical principles at the basis of the magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas, focusing on the peculiarities of
the tokamak device.