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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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CFS working with NVIDIA, Siemens on SPARC digital twin
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a fusion firm headquartered in Devens, Mass., is collaborating with California-based computing infrastructure company NVIDIA and Germany-based technology conglomerate Siemens to develop a digital twin of its SPARC fusion machine. The cooperative work among the companies will focus on applying artificial intelligence and data- and project-management tools as the SPARC digital twin is developed.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair:
Amir Ali
Alternate Chair:
Guillaume P. Mignot
Session Organizer:
W. David Pointer
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (American Nuclear Society)
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Towards Understanding the Thermal-Hydraulic Distortion of using Surrogate Fluids for FHRs Development
Amir Ali (Idaho State University), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth University), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Paper
Prediction of Departure from Nucleate Boiling Using Two-Fluid CFD Model
Danny Ouk (University of Massachusetts at Lowell), Subash L. Sharma (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
STAR CCM+ simulation of the Helium-3 neutron capture reaction effect on the Helium-3 Negative Reactivity Insertion (HENRI) cartridge operation
Cole Leingang (Oregon State University), Guillaume P. Mignot (Oregon State University)
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