Abstract
This chapter discusses the modern electric analogue computer. It also presents a number of examples of intrinsic interest in nuclear engineering showing the programming involved and typical results, including the slower transients of xenon poisoning and fuel burn-up. Digital computers have tremendous power but have some limitations in solving differential equations; they are better suited to differencing than integration. Analogue computers offer a way of studying systems, their response and their stability, characterized by relative ease of programming, a need for little analytical skill, by great flexibility in altering programs, and coefficient settings during the investigating and by easily understood visual or graphical output. This flexibility means that the analogue computer is particularly useful in design studies where many parameters have to be varied and optimized.
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