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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project
Nichols
The Oak Ridger has published the latest in a series of articles about General Kenneth D. Nichols, the Manhattan Project, and the 1954 Atomic Energy Act. The series has been produced by Nichols’ grandniece Barbara Rogers Scollin and Oak Ridge (Tenn.) city historian David Ray Smith. Gen. Nichols (1907–2000) was the district engineer for the Manhattan Engineer District during the Manhattan Project.
As Smith and Scollin explain, Nichols “had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction, and operation of, all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, including the construction of the towns of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington. The responsibility of his position was massive as he oversaw a workforce of both military and civilian personnel of approximately 125,000; his Oak Ridge office became the center of the wartime atomic energy’s activities.”
Technical Session|Special Topics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 5-8
Session Chair:
Han Bao
Alternate Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh
Session Organizer:
Kurshad Muftuoglu
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Prediction of Departure from Nucleate Boiling Power Using ANN and PIML Algorithms
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Chaitee Godbole (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Upendra Rohatgi (Brookhaven)
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Deep Generative Modeling for Augmentation of the Steady-State Void Fraction Dataset in the BFBT Benchmark
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Farah Alsafadi (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Data-Driven RANS Turbulence Modeling of Mixed Convection in Reactor Downcomer Geometry
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Arsen S. Iskhakov (NCSU), Cheng-Kai Tai (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Data-Driven Augmentation of a Second Order Heat Flux Model to Extend it to Heavy Liquid Metals
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Matilde Fiore (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Lilla Koloszar (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Miguel Alfonso Mendez (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Matthieu Duponcheel (Univ. Catholique de Louvain), Yann Bartosiewicz (Univ. Catholique de Louvain)
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