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NextGen MURR Working Group established in Missouri
The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has created the NextGen MURR Working Group to serve as a strategic advisory body for the development of the NextGen MURR (University of Missouri Research Reactor).
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine F
Session Chair:
Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Sunming Qin (INL)
This session will conclude with a brief THD Awards Ceremony. Two awards for excellence in reviewing papers/summaries and a best paper award will be presented.
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Parametric Study of the CHF Occurrence During RIAs for High Burnup Fuels.
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Lise Charlot (INL)
Paper
Development of Segregated Thermal-Hydraulics Solvers in MOOSE
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Peter German (INL), Alexander D. Lindsay (INL), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Guillaume L. Giudicelli (INL), Ramiro O. Freile (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL)
Numerical Evaluation of Effective Thermal Conductivity of PCM with Metal Foam Incorporating Buoyancy Effects for Thermal Energy Storage
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Janghun Han (Hanyang Univ.), Junsoo Yoo (INL), Sunming Qin (INL), Minseop Song (Hanyang Univ.)
A Eulerian Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Particle Transport During Fuel Dispersal
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Avinash Moharana (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Shanbin Shi (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Simulation of Pebble Bed Conduction Cooldown Using LIGGGHTS DEM Software Package
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Andres Gomez (Purdue Univ.), John Matulis (Purdue Univ.), Hitesh Bindra (Purdue Univ.)
Preliminary Analysis of Fluid-Structure Interaction Behavior for MITR LEU Fuel Elements
4:55–5:15PM PDT
M. Sharabi (ANL), C. Bojanowski (ANL), W. Mohamed (ANL), G. Wang (ANL), M. Sitek (ANL), K. Anderson (ANL), L.-W. Hu (MIT), E. Wilson (ANL)
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