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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Abdurrahman Ozturk, Jonathon Gardner (Univ of South Carolina), Kyle Brinkman, Lindsay Shuller-Nickles (Clemson Univ), Travis W. Knight (Univ of South Carolina)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 628-634
A MOOSE (Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment) based application, TREX, has been developed for modeling and simulation of advanced ceramic waste forms at multiple length scales. A method was developed for incorporating microstructural details at the mesoscale and computing effective material properties that can then be applied at the engineering scale capable of modeling the entire waste form. The work described includes the creation of Kernel, Material, and Postprocessor objects necessary to model the advanced ceramic waste form. Using these developed tools, the diffusion of cesium was modeled in a hollandite waste form. Experimental data and first principle calculations taken from the literature were used to inform models of the hollandite material properties.