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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|Radioisotope Power Systems
Tuesday, May 6, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|Salon EF (Marriott)
Session Chair:
Colleen Van Lear (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Track Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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Stirling Convertor Launch Vibration Modeling
1:00–1:25PM CDT
Brett Shapiro (Johns Hopkins Univ. APL), Dennis Duven (Johns Hopkins Univ. APL), Martin Fraeman (Johns Hopkins Univ. APL), David Reed (Johns Hopkins Univ. APL)
Paper
Development of System Identification Testing Method for Stirling Convertors
1:25–1:50PM CDT
Max D. Yang (NASA)
Efficient Computational Method for Three-Dimensional Thermally- and Electrically-Coupled Performance Prediction of GPHS-RTG
1:50–2:15PM CDT
Carter D. Gassler (Univ. Pittsburgh), Michael J. Durka (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Natan P. Herzog (Univ. Pittsburgh), Matthew M. Barry (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Thermal/Fluidic Model of Heat and CO Transport in the Next-Generation RTG under Storage Conditions
2:15–2:35PM CDT
Michael Joseph Durka (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Jean-Pierre Fleurial (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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