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Author:

Guzzetta, Ashley Susan

Title:

MODELING THE EFFECTS OF FUEL ROD CRUD FORMATION ON BOILING HEAT TRANSFER IN A PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR USING EULERIAN TWO-FLUID CFD

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

nuclear
pressurized water reactors
crud model
subcooled boiling
heat transfer
CFD
crud formation

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Guzzetta.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria Nikolova Avramova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Parks, David Austin

Title:

Development of a Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Array Sensor for Nuclear Reactor Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

ultrasonic
nuclear
piezoelectric
radiation damage

File:

Download Parks_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Shujun Zhang, Committee Member
Judith Todd, Committee Member

Author:

Ross, Jacob Wayne

Title:

FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A DUAL-CORE BOILING SUPERHEAT REACTOR

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

uranium carbide
nuclear
reactor
superheat
boiling
zirconium hydride

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Lawrence Hochreiter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lawrence E Hochreiter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kern, Ludwig August

Title:

FLUENT CFD MODELING IN DESIGN OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL DRY STORAGE CASK

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Fluent
fluent modeling
cfd
cfd modeling
fluent model
cfd model
computational fluid dynamics
nuclear
nuclear engineering
dry storage
dry storage cask
spent fuel
spent nuclear fuel
nuclear fuel
rbmk
chernobyl
holtec
thermal
heat transfer
natural convection
convection
natural convective flow
annular
prototype
full-scale
validation
cfd code
navier-stokes
navier-stokes equation

File:

Download Kern_MS_NucE_Thesis_2009_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan Bill B Cheung, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Cimbala, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ali, Randall Azhar

Title:

Self-powered Thermoacoustic Sensor for In-pile Nuclear Reactor Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

acoustics
thermoacoustics
nuclear
temperature
sensor
in-pile
self-powered
reactor
telemetry
wireless
sensing
fuel-rod

File:

Download RALI_MS_Thesis_in_Acoustics_Final_Version_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Lurie Garrett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Ernest Poese, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hrisko, Joshua Eric

Title:

Detectability prediction for a thermoacoustic sensor in the breazeale nuclear reactor pool

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

acoustics
thermoacoustics
sensors
breazeale
nuclear
reactor
signal processing
vibration
frequency
detection
radiation

File:

Download Hrisko_Penn_State_Final_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Lurie Garrett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Barber, Nathan

Title:

Expanding the Range of Hydropower Schedules to Maximize Nuclear and Hydro Generation: Machine Learning Techniques for Practical Sensitivity Analysis

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

hydropower
nuclear
sensitivity analysis
ensembles
machine learning
clustering
hydrodynamic model
ANOVA

File:

Download Barber_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven J Greybush, Committee Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member