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Maine Maritime Academy to offer nuclear engineering technology major
The Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) is set to become the first maritime academy in the United States to offer a major in nuclear engineering technology. The college characterized it as “an important step in addressing workforce needs and advancing clean energy solutions” in a LinkedIn post announcing the major.
Fabian Schlegel, Richard Meller, Benjamin Krull, Ronald Lehnigk, Matej Tekavčič
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 10 | October 2023 | Pages 2620-2633
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2120316
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Industrial multiphase flows are typically characterized by coexisting morphologies. Modern simulation methods are well established for dispersed [e.g., Euler-Euler (E-E)] or resolved [e.g., volume-of-fluid (VOF)] interfacial structures. Hence, a morphology adaptive multifield two-fluid model is proposed that is able to handle dispersed and resolved interfacial structures coexisting in the computational domain with the same set of equations. An interfacial drag formulation for large interfacial structures is used to describe them in a VOF-like manner. For the dispersed structures, the baseline model developed at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf is applied. The functionality of the framework is demonstrated by investigating a single rising gas bubble in a stagnant water column, a two-dimensional stagnant stratification of water and oil sharing a large-scale interface that is penetrated by micro gas bubbles, and an isothermal countercurrent stratified flow case. Recent developments focus on the transition region, where bubbles are overresolved or underresolved either for E-E or for VOF. Furthermore, a concept is presented for the transition of oversized dispersed bubbles into the resolved phase.