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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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Dragonfly, a Pu-fueled drone heading to Titan, gets key NASA approval
Curiosity landed on Mars sporting a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in 2012, and a second NASA rover, Perseverance, landed in 2021. Both are still rolling across the red planet in the name of science. Another exploratory craft with a similar plutonium-238–fueled RTG but a very different mission—to fly between multiple test sites on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon—recently got one step closer to deployment.
On April 25, NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) announced that the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s icy moon passed its critical design review. “Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and test plans are all approved, and the mission can now turn its attention to the construction of the spacecraft itself,” according to NASA.
Technical Session|Experimental Thermal Hydraulics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Stephen Bajorek (USNRC)
Alternate Chair:
Saya Lee (PSU)
Session Organizer:
Xiaodong Sun
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Experimental Investigations of Rod Bundle Creep in Fluid-Structure Interaction
10:45–11:05AM EDT
G.A.M. Vidal (CEA), E. Lo Pinto (CEA), V. Faucher (CEA), G. Ricciardi (French Alternative Energies and Atomic), N. Lamorte (Framatome), J. Pacull (Framatome)
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Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements for Transition Flow Regime Through a Porous Blocked Subchannel in a 61-Pin Wire-Wrapped Bundle
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Trevor Melsheimer (TAMU), Craig Menezes (TAMU), Matthew Kinsky (TAMU), Dalton Pyle (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
Experiment and Analysis on the Multi-Dimensional Flow Behavior Between Sub-Channels in the Rod-Bundle Array
11:25–11:45AM EDT
Seok Kim (KAERI), Jee Min Yoo (KAERI), Byong Guk Jeon (KAERI), Sank-Ki Moon (KAERI)
Study on the Mixing Vane Grid Effect on Flow Field and Bubble Distribution in a 2x1 Subchannel by PIV and High Speed Camera
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Bin Han (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ.), Bao-Wen Yang (DEQD Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy), Xiaoliang Zhu (Southeast Univ.), Aiguo Liu (Delta Energy Group)
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