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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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ANS and the U.K.’s NI announce reciprocal membership agreement
With President Trump on a state visit to the U.K., in part to sign a landmark new agreement on U.S.-U.K. nuclear collaboration, a flurry of transatlantic partnerships and deals bridging the countries’ nuclear sectors have been announced.
The American Nuclear Society is taking an active role in this bridge-building by forming a reciprocal membership agreement with the U.K.’s Nuclear Institute.
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2022)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Manhattan
Session Chair:
Ralph Wiser (MIT)
Alternate Chair:
Dillon R. Shaver
Session Organizer:
Elia Merzari
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Large Eddy Simulation of Jet Interaction
John Acierno (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State )
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Assessing the Structure-Based Turbulence Model Performance with Symmetric Jet Experiments
Monica Pham (MIT), Emilio Baglietto (MIT), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan)
A Precursory Investigation of the Turbulent Mixing and Thermal Striping Phenomena in the General Atomics HTGR Upper Plenum
Yue Jin (MIT), Jinyong Feng (MIT), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), Emilio Baglietto (MIT)
Large Eddy Simulation of a 67-Pebble Bed Experiment
David Reger (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Yassin Hassan (TAMU), Stephen King (TAMU), Khoi Ngo (TAMU), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Paolo Balestra (INL)
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