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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
Standards Program
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The progress so far: An update on the Reactor Pilot Program
It has been about three months since the Department of Energy named 10 companies for its new Reactor Pilot Program, which maps out how the DOE would meet the goal announced by executive order in May of having three reactors achieve criticality by July 4, 2026.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, June 16, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Great America 1/2
Session Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Carolina Dutra (Penn State)
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Interface Capturing Simulations of the Impact of Shear Rate Variations on the Interfacial Forces Acting on a Bubble
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Maxim Khvostov (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
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Spectrally Resolved Interface Capturing Simulations of Bubble Sparging in Glass Melters
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Nadish Saini (ANL), Donna P. Guillen (INL), Dillon R. Shaver (ANL)
An Overview of the Phase-II of the NEAMS Thermal-hydraulics IRP
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Elia Merzari (Penn State), Tri Nguyen (Penn State), Dillon R. Shaver (ANL), Emilio Baglietto (MIT), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
DNS Investigation of Turbulent Mixed Convection in a Vertical Channel Under Transient Conditions
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Alexey Burbasov (NCSU), Tri Nguyen (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
Simulations of External Flow Around Twisted Elliptical Tubes for Above Unity Prandtl Numbers and Low to Moderate Reynolds Numbers
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Sierra Tutwiler (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Dillon R. Shaver (ANL), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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