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“Life is a roller coaster. It’s best ridden with your hands in the air.”
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
I find myself saying the expression above a lot these days—to my kids, my wife, my friends, and colleagues. Most recently, I said it to the person sitting next to me after the pilot of our plane—bound for Reagan National Airport a day after the collision of AA flight 5342 and a military Blackhawk helicopter—aborted the landing at the last minute.
I am not sure where I picked up this pronouncement, but I find it to be apropos to the topsy-turvy moment where we find ourselves in 2025. In addition to the first U.S. commercial airline crash in 15 years, we are witnessing a new presidential administration in its infancy playing by the Silicon Valley rules of “move fast, break things.” We’ve seen DeepSeek, the low-cost Chinese AI that reportedly uses 50–75 percent less energy than its NVIDIA-powered counterparts, tank Constellation’s market value by more than 20 percent in one late-January trading day.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, November 16, 2020|3:40–5:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Rodolfo Vaghetto
Alternate Chair:
Ran Kong (Purdue)
Session Organizer:
Bao-Wen Yang
Staff Producer:
Janet Davis (American Nuclear Society)
At the conclusion of this session, THD division chair Dr. Marcum Wade will lead the acknowledgment and presentation of the Thermal Hydraulics Technical Achievement Award (TAA) to Dr. Michael Podowski
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Pressure Drop Measurements in a 61-Pin Wire Wrapped Hexagonal Fuel Bundle in Presence of Localized Subchannel Blockages
Robert Muyshondt (Texas A&M University), N.K. Anand (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University), Duy-Thien Nguyen (Texas A&M University), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M University), Mason P. Childs (Texas A&M University)
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Preliminary Measurements of Swirl Flow Heat Transfer Enhancements for Reactor Heat Exchanger Technology
Candler L. Langston (Virginia Commonwealth University), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth University), Ryan P. McGuire (Virginia Commonwealth University), Meryem E. Murphy (Virginia Commonwealth University), Cody S. Wiggins (Virginia Commonwealth University), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Low-Order Reconstruction of Pore-Scale Velocity in Randomly Packed Beds based on POD analysis of Time-resolved PIV Velocity Fields
Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University), Stephen King (Texas A&M University College Station), Duy-Thien Nguyen (Texas A&M University)
Applications of the Windowless Liquid Metal Jet to Accelerators
Yoichi Momozaki (Argonne National Laboratory)
Investigation of the Near Wake of a Sphere Using Time-Resolved Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry
N.K. Anand (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University), Duy-Thien Nguyen (Texas A&M University), Robert Muyshondt (Texas A&M University)
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