Our lab is reshaping the future of modeling and simulation in fission and fusion energy systems, including:
- Molten salt reactor and micro-reactor modeling: full-fidelity, first-of-their-kind simulations
- Nuclear thermal propulsion for deep space exploration: innovative multi-physics approaches tailored to high-speed propellant flow, extreme power densities, and very high temperatures
- Digital twins, model order reduction, and optimal sensor placement for redundancy and fault tolerance
- Inertial Fusion Energy: capsule survivability from barrel acceleration to free-flight into high-temperature rarefied gases; shock propagation; first wall behavior under thermo-mechanical loads and neutron irradiation; tritium breeding blanket design and analysis
Available software
- Developers and maintainers of the GeN-Foam software for the multi-physics simulation of nuclear energy systems
- Developers and maintainers of the OFFBEAT software for non-linear solid mechanics and nuclear fuel behavior
- Contributors to the OpenSN software for massively parallel fusion transport simulation
- Proficient users and occasional contributors to the MOOSE multiphysics platform
- Proficient users and occasional contributors to Monte Carlo neutral particle transport codes such as Serpent and OpenMC
- Of course, we also use general purpose software like ANSYS Fluent, Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Matlab Simulink, OpenModelica, Dymola, etc.
Publications
A comprehensive list of publications is available on Google Scholar.