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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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ANS’s Mentor Match applications open
Applications are now open for the American Nuclear Society’s newly redesigned mentoring program. Mentor Match is a unique opportunity available only to ANS members that offers year-round mentorship and networking opportunities to Society members at any point in their education.
The deadline to apply for membership in the inaugural summer cohort, which will take place July 1–August 31, is June 20. The application form can be found here.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Chicago Ballroom A
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Izabela Gutowska
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Modeling the Oregon State University's High Temperature Test Facility via a Porous Media Approach
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Ismail Bouarich (INL), Lise Charlot (INL), Mauricio E. Tano Retamales (INL)
Presented by Guillaume Guidicelli (INL)
Paper
Benchmarking the OSU HTTF to StarCCM+
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Benjamin Nakhnikian-Weintraub (Oregon State), Izabela Gutowska (Oregon State)
Preliminary CFD Results of the Lower Plenum Mixing Test of the High Temperature Test Facility Benchmark
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Mohammed Muaaz M. Hussain (NRG PALLAS), Ferry Roelofs (NRG PALLAS)
Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) High-Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) Thermal-Hydraulics Benchmark: Error Scaling Exercise
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Aaron S. Epiney (INL), Ramon K. Yoshiura (INL), Mohammad G. Abdo (INL), Robert Kile (INL)
Progress Towards Validating a New RELAP5-3D Model of the High Temperature Test Facility
11:20–11:40AM CDT
Jonathan L. Barthle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Aaron S. Epiney (INL), Robert Kile (INL)
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