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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The Illinois General Assembly passed a clean energy bill on October 30 that would, in part, lift a 30-year moratorium on new nuclear energy in the state and create incentives for more energy storage.
Sunday, August 20, 2023|9:00AM–4:00PM EDT
Columbia 1
Dillon Shaver (ANL), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Jun Fang (ANL), Nadish Saini (ANL), Lander Ibarra (ANL)
Nek5000 is an open-source, highly scalable, high-order, spectral-element-based computational fluid dynamics code. It combines the accuracy of spectral methods with the flexibility of the finite element method. It has been used for a wide range of applications in nuclear energy. It has the capabilities to perform DNS, LES, and unsteady RANS simulations using either an incompressible or low-Mach model. Its high-fidelity capability with the LES model has been well documented with consistent strong performance in international benchmarks. This workshop will guide users in downloading and compiling Nek5000 as well as setting up and running a few demonstration cases.
To participate, attendees must have access to a computer with a Unix based operating system and basic familiarity with using the terminal along with compatible FORTRAN 77 and C compilers installed with a working MPI wrapper. For details see here: https://nek5000.github.io/NekDoc/quickstart.html. Either ParaView (www.paraview.org) or VisIt is necessary for visualization of results. We strongly recommend that attendees are familiar with either tool and have one installed prior to the workshop.
Cost: $99
