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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, November 16, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Donna P. Guillen
Alternate Chair:
Xiaodong Sun (Univ. of Michigan)
Session Organizer:
Kurshad Muftuoglu
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (American Nuclear Society)
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Numerical simulation of the flow through a randomly packed pebble bed with small bed-to-pebble diameter ratio
Mustafa Alper Yildiz (Texas A&M University), Elia Merzari (Pennsylvania State University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University)
Paper
Validation of Turbulence Models for Heat Transfer Predictions for Low-Pr Flows
Elia Merzari (Penn State Univ.), Aleksandr V. Obabko (ANL), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.), Keith Walters (University of Oklahoma), Shanti Bushan (Mississippi State University), W. D. Jock (University of Oklahoma), Giacomo Busco (Texas A&M Univ.), Mohammed El Mellouki (Mississippi State University)
Experimentally Developed Recommendations to Improve Existing Coarse Aerosol Deposition Models
Rohan Milind Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Tevfik Gemci (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical LLC)
A Numerical Verification of Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer Models in OpenFOAM and STARCCM+
Adrian Tentner (Argonne National Laboratory), Landon M. Brockmeyer (Argonne National Laboratory), Haomin Yuan (Argonne National Laboratory), Dezhi Dai (ANL)
CFD Simulations on a hexagonal 61-pin wire-wrapped fuel bundle with STARCCM+ and comparison with experimental data.
Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M University), Yassin A. Hassan (Texas A&M University), Mustafa A. Yildiz (Texas A&M University), Octavio Bovati (Texas A&M University)
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