The Use of Electronic Digital Computers in a Study of High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors

The following paper is in the form of a review of the scope of high speed computer methods as applied to a particular reactor design study in connexion with which the author has been responsible for the mathematical work. For a more general review the reader is referred to, e.g., Howlett (1958). By reviewing a particular design study the author has been able to discuss certain aspects of the work in some degree of detail, but even so it has not been possible in the space available to do more than review the types of problems to which machine methods have been applied in the pursuance of this specific study: the derivation of equations (most of which are, however, now well-known) and the evaluation of results has had to be omitted. It is hoped to publish more detailed papers dealing with more specialized branches of the subject in subsequent issues of Reactor Technology.