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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Technical Session|Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification
Monday, April 28, 2025|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Horace Tabor
Session Chair:
Yousry Azmy (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Ben Murphy (Univ. New Mexico)
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Deterministic Data Assimilation in Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis: Application to Natural Circulation Loops
10:00–10:25AM MDT
Lanxin Gong (Univ. Science and Technology of China), Changhong Peng (Univ. Science and Technology of China)
Paper
Fully Coupled Adjoint-Based Perturbation Theory for dynAmIcs and heat traNsfer (CAPTAIN) Multiphysics for Nuclear Transients
10:25–10:50AM MDT
Alexis Maldonado (Univ. New Mexico), Christopher M. Perfetti (Univ. New Mexico)
Uncertainty Quantification of Bifurcations in the Rayleigh-Benard Problem for Molten Salts
10:50–11:15AM MDT
Fadel M. Nasr (NCSU), Yousry Azmy (NCSU)
Uncertainty Quantification of Transients with Derived Kinetic Data
11:15–11:40AM MDT
Maximiliano Velasco (NCSU), Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
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