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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Godzilla is helping ITER prepare for tokamak assembly
ITER employees stand by Godzilla, the most powerful commercially available industrial robot available. (Photo: ITER)
Many people are familiar with Godzilla as a giant reptilian monster that emerged from the sea off the coast of Japan, the product of radioactive contamination. These days, there is a new Godzilla, but it has a positive—and entirely fact-based—association with nuclear energy. This one has emerged inside the Tokamak Assembly Preparation Building of ITER in southern France.
Technical Session
Thursday, October 7, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair:
HyeongKae Park (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Robert Nourgaliev (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Cole Tagasuki (NC State Univ.)
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Implicit Shock Fitting for Multimaterial Shock Dynamics Using a High-Order Space-Time Discontinuous Finite-Element Method
8:30–8:55AM EDT
R. Nourgaliev (LLNL), A. Corrigan (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), A. Kercher (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), S. Wopschall (LLNL), P. Greene (LLNL)
Paper
Analysis of Unstable Structures in a Low-Reynolds, Horizontal Channel for Supercritical Fluid Flows
8:55–9:20AM EDT
R. Barney (Univ. of California, Davis), R. Nourgaliev (LLNL), J.P. Delplanque (Univ. of California, Davis), R. McCallen (LLNL)
Computational Fluid Dynamics Mesh Generation of the PSBT Benchmark Subchannels for Use with Nek5000
9:20–9:45AM EDT
David Holler (NC State Univ.), Nilay Atul Kulkarni (NC State Univ.), Maria Avramova (NC State Univ.)
Numerical Modeling of an In-Vessel Flow Limiter Using an Immersed Boundary Approach
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Georis Billo (CEA), Michel Belliard (CEA), Pierre Sagaut (Aix-Marseille Univ.)
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