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Author:: Aktas, Birol
Title:: Level Tracking in Thermal-Hydraulic Simulations of Nuclear Reactors
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: level tracking
computational fluid mechanics
two-phase flows
thermal-hydraulics
reactor safety
File:: Download Thesis_BAktas.pdf
Committee Members:: John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Gordon Edward Robinson, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member

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Author:: Ivanov, Boyan Dimitrov
Title:: METHODOLOGY FOR EMBEDDED TRANSPORT CORE CALCULATION
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: HOMOGENIZATION
FEM
EMBEDDED
File:: Download Thesis_BDI.pdf
Committee Members:: Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yousry Y Azmy, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Committee Member
Mohamed Ouisloumen, Committee Member

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Author:: Aydogan, Fatih
Title:: DEVELOPMENT OF UNCERTAINTY METHODOLOGY FOR COBRA-TF VOID DISTRIBUTION AND CRITICAL POWER PREDICTIONS
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: dry-out elevation
uncertainty analysis
bwr
cobra-tf
fatih aydogan
pennstate uncertainty methodology
void distribution
critical power
bwr bundle
File:: Download PHD_whole_document_version1.pdf
Committee Members:: Lawrence Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Kurshad Muftuoglu, Committee Member

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Author:: Buschman III, Francis Xavier
Title:: Development of a Liquid Jet Model for Implementation in a 3-Dimensional Eulerian Analysis Tool
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: thermal-hydraulics
Two-phase flow
Liquid Jets
Condensation
COBRA-TF
File:: Download FX_Buschman_III_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Lawrence Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
"David L Aumiller, Jr", Committee Member

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Author:: Duo, Jose Ignacio
Title:: ERROR ESTIMATES FOR NODAL AND SHORT CHARACTERISTICS SPATIAL APPROXIMATIONS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL DISCRETE ORDINATES METHOD
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: discrete ordinates
a posteriori error estimator
neutron transport
nodal and short characteristics
adaptive mesh refinement
File:: Download duo_2008_error_estimates_transport.pdf
Committee Members:: Yoursry Y Azmy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Oscar M Zamonsky, Committee Member

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Author:: Watson, Justin Kyle
Title:: Implicit Time-Integration Method for Simultaneous Solution of a Coupled Non-Linear System
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: Multi-Physics
Time-Integration
Implicit
Coupled Codes
File:: Download PhDThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yousry Y Azmy, Committee Member
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Committee Member
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Vicent A Mousseau, Committee Member

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Author:: Lane, Jeffrey William
Title:: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE ANNULAR FLOW MODELING PACKAGE FOR TWO-PHASE THREE-FIELD TRANSIENT SAFETY ANALYSIS CODES
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: safety analysis
annular flow
interfacial drag
entrainment
ccfl
File:: Download LANE_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Fan Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lawrence E Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
"David L Aumiller, Jr", Committee Member
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member

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Author:: Avramova, Maria Nikolova
Title:: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE SPACER GRID MODEL UTILIZING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS WITHIN A SUBCHANNEL ANALYSIS TOOL
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: Thermal-hydraulics
sub-channel analysis
CFD
F-COBRA-TF
spacer grids
File:: Download PhD_Thesis_MariaAvramova_Fall2007.pdf
Committee Members:: Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lauewnce E Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Markus Glueck, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member

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Author:: Rosa, Massimiliano
Title:: Properties of the SN-Equivalent Integral Transport Operator and the Iterative Acceleration of Neutral Particle Transport Methods
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: Neutral particle transport
Integral transport operator
Iterative acceleration
Fourier analysis
Diffusive preconditioners
Isotropic scattering
File:: Download PhDThesisMassimilianoRosa.pdf
Committee Members:: Yousry Y Azmy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Leonid V Berlyand, Committee Member
Jim E Morel, Committee Member

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Author:: Ergun, Sule
Title:: MODELING OF DISPERSED FLOW FILM BOILING WITH TWO FLOW, FIVE FIELD EULERIAN- EULERIAN APPROACH AND EFFECTS OF SPACER GRIDS ON HEAT TRANSFER
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: two phase flow modeling
dispersed flow film boiling
spacer grids
COBRA-TF
File:: Download Sule_Ergun_PhD_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Lawrence E Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Committee Member
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

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