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November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Nuclear News 40 Under 40: The wait is over
Following the enthusiastic response from the nuclear community in 2024 for the inaugural NN 40 Under 40, the Nuclear News team knew we had to take up the difficult task in 2025 of turning it into an annual event—though there was plenty of uncertainty as to how the community would receive a second iteration this year. That uncertainty was unfounded, clearly, as the tight-knit nuclear community embraced the chance to celebrate its up-and-coming generation of scientists, engineers, and policy makers who are working to grow the influence of this oft-misunderstood technology.
V. E. Fortov, B. Goel, C.-D. Munz, A. L. Ni, A. V. Shutov, O. Yu. Vorobiev
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 2 | June 1996 | Pages 169-189
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24181
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A Godunov scheme is proposed for the simulation of impact problems and detonations where nonstationary fronts and interfaces are tracked as boundaries of subregions that move in time. In each subregion and at each time step, a new grid is created by the use of boundary-fitted coordinates. The numerical method is based on a finite-volume approach in the space-time domain, and the fluxes are calculated using the solution of Riemann problems. Numerical results are shown for several impact and detonation problems, showing the efficiency of this approach.