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2022 ANS Annual Meeting
June 12–16, 2022
Anaheim, CA|Anaheim Hilton
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Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Friday, December 3, 2021|9:00–10:45AM (10:00–11:45AM EST)|Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Xu Wu (NC State Univ.)
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Alternate Chair:
Igor Bolotnov (NC State Univ.)
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Surface Roughness Modeling for Transformational Challenge Reactor Fuel Form
9:05–9:25AM (10:05–10:25AM EST)
Justin Weinmeister (ORNL)
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System-Level Simulation of the PBMR-400 Core with SAM
9:25–9:45AM (10:25–10:45AM EST)
Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL), Ling Zou (ANL), Thanh Hua (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL)
CFD Investigation of Thermal Behavior of NBSR Thermal Shield Model Under Various Cooling Conditions
9:45–10:05AM (10:45–11:05AM EST)
Manikanta Grandhi (Texas A&M Univ.-Kingsville), Xue Yang (Texas A&M Univ.-Kingsville)
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