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NC State celebrates 70 years of nuclear engineering education
An early picture of the research reactor building on the North Carolina State University campus. The Department of Nuclear Engineering is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its nuclear engineering curriculum in 2020–2021. Photo: North Carolina State University
The Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University has spent the 2020–2021 academic year celebrating the 70th anniversary of its becoming the first U.S. university to establish a nuclear engineering curriculum. It started in 1950, when Clifford Beck, then of Oak Ridge, Tenn., obtained support from NC State’s dean of engineering, Harold Lampe, to build the nation’s first university nuclear reactor and, in conjunction, establish an educational curriculum dedicated to nuclear engineering.
The department, host to the 2021 ANS Virtual Student Conference, scheduled for April 8–10, now features 23 tenure/tenure-track faculty and three research faculty members. “What a journey for the first nuclear engineering curriculum in the nation,” said Kostadin Ivanov, professor and department head.
Yaqi Wang, Jean Ragusa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 161 | Number 1 | January 2009 | Pages 22-48
Technical Paper | dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE161-22
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper presents fully automated hp-mesh refinement strategies applied to diffusion equations. In hp strategies, both the mesh size and the polynomial order can vary locally. Numerical results show that exponential convergence rates are achieved for a fraction of the number of unknowns needed with uniform refinement and h-adaptive strategies. The treatment of adaptivity in the multigroup case and the derivation of goal-oriented estimators for neutronics calculations are described. The smoothness of the multigroup components can vary greatly as a function of the energy group; this fact called for the development of group-dependent adapted spatial meshes. The goal-oriented process combines the standard hp adaptation technique with a goal-oriented adaptivity based on the simultaneous solution of an adjoint problem in order to compute quantities of interest, such as reaction rates in subdomains and pointwise fluxes or currents. These algorithms are tested for various multigroup one-dimensional and two-dimensional diffusion problems, and the numerical results confirm the exponential convergence rates predicted theoretically.
