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ORNL completes challenging molten salt property measurements
Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced the completion of a set of experiments measuring the viscosity and thermal conductivity of several uranium-bearing molten salts, filling in gaps that could help with the development of molten salt reactors.
Workshop
Thursday, April 8, 2021|11:45AM–1:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Xu Wu
Alternate Chair:
Ishita Trivedi
Session Organizer:
Edward Chen (NC State Univ.)
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Session Producers:
Roberto Fairhurst-Agosta (Univ. of Ill., Urbana-Champaign)
Modern predictive simulations have a special focus on the systematic treatment of input, model and data uncertainties and their propagation through a computational model to produce predictions of Quantities-of-Interest (QoIs) with quantified uncertainty. Although the modeling of nuclear reactors has made tremendous progress, there are always discrepancies between ideal in silico designed systems and real-world manufactured ones. As a consequence, uncertainties must be quantified along with simulation to facilitate optimal design and decision making, ensure robustness, performance and safety margins. This workshop will provide an overview of the fundamental concepts in Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Sensitivity Analysis (SA), as well as comparative reviews of forward/inverse UQ and SA approaches. Topics on quantifying prediction uncertainties in Machine Learning models will also be briefly covered.
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