Heat Capacity Study on the Evaluation of Uranium Nitride Using Einstein-Debye Approximation

Year 2016, Volume: 16 Issue: 3, 517 - 520, 31.12.2016

Ebru Çopuroğlu

Abstract

We have proposed an alternative evaluation procedure for calculating specific heat capacity of Uranium Nitride nuclear fuel. The calculation results have been obtained by the use of Einstein-Debye approach. The proposed method is valid for all temperature values. This method can be easily applied to the other nuclear fuels to determine the other thermophysical properties.

Keywords

Heat Capacity, Einstein-Debye Approximation, Nuclear Fuels

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