Young Professionals Research Competition: II

Improving ML-based Critical Heat Flux Predictive Capability with Synthetic Data: A Comparison of Data Augmentation and Pretraining

1:15–1:35PM MST

Aidan J. Furlong (North Carolina State University), Xu Wu (North Carolina State University), Alexandra G. Akins (North Carolina State University)

Derivative-Constrained Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Post-Dryout Heat Transfer Prediction

1:35–1:55PM MST

Davide Rotilio (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Xingang Zhao (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Robert K. Salko (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Bayesian-Optimized Differentiable Predictive Control for Autonomous Thermal-Hydraulic Plant Operation

1:55–2:15PM MST

Akzhol Almukhametov (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University), Zaid Abulawi (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University), Yang Liu (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University)

DEM Modeling and Validation of Pebble Bed Packing Using Chrono::GPU

2:15–2:35PM MST

Mahmoud Q. Yaseen (The Pennsylvania State University), Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University), David Reger (Idaho National Laboratory), Victor Coppo Leite (Idaho National Laboratory), Sunming Qin (Idaho National Laboratory), Sinan Okyay (Pennsylvania State University), Gerhard Strydom (Idaho National Laboratory)

Generation and Parametric Evaluation of Synthetic Critical Heat Flux Data with a Conditional Physics-Informed Diffusion Model and a Downstream Ensemble

2:35–2:55PM MST

Alexandra G. Akins (North Carolina State University), Aidan J. Furlong (North Carolina State University), Xu Wu