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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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ANS holds Educator Training webinar on nuclear waste
Loewen
Perfetti
A recent American Nuclear Society webinar tackled misconceptions about nuclear waste. Christopher Perfetti, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at the University of New Mexico, presented “The How, Why, and Where of Nuclear Waste,” the latest online event in ANS’s Educator Training series.
Moderated by ANS past president Eric Loewen (2011–12), this presentation was built to be an accessible and informative Nuclear Waste 101 offering as part of the Society’s broader effort to develop a program specifically tailored to educating K-12 teachers.
Technical Session|Special Topics
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|9:00–10:20AM EDT|Columbia 5-8
Session Chair:
Han Bao
Alternate Chair:
Majdi I. Radaideh
Session Organizer:
Kurshad Muftuoglu
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Prediction of Departure from Nucleate Boiling Power Using ANN and PIML Algorithms
9:00–9:20AM EDT
Chaitee Godbole (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Upendra Rohatgi (Brookhaven)
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Deep Generative Modeling for Augmentation of the Steady-State Void Fraction Dataset in the BFBT Benchmark
9:20–9:40AM EDT
Farah Alsafadi (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Data-Driven RANS Turbulence Modeling of Mixed Convection in Reactor Downcomer Geometry
9:40–10:00AM EDT
Arsen S. Iskhakov (NCSU), Cheng-Kai Tai (NCSU), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU), Nam T. Dinh (NCSU), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
Data-Driven Augmentation of a Second Order Heat Flux Model to Extend it to Heavy Liquid Metals
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Matilde Fiore (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Lilla Koloszar (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Miguel Alfonso Mendez (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics), Matthieu Duponcheel (Univ. Catholique de Louvain), Yann Bartosiewicz (Univ. Catholique de Louvain)
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