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Recent Publications
Status, perspectives, and added value of high fidelity simulations for safety and design
Komen, E. M. J., Mathur, A., Roelofs, F., Merzari, E. & Tiselj, I., Jan 2023, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 401, 112082.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
An improved pressure drop correlation for modeling localized effects in a pebble bed reactor
Reger, D., Merzari, E., Balestra, P., Schunert, S., Hassan, Y. & Yuan, H., Mar 2023, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 403, 112123.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Pressure Drop Correlation Improvement for the Near-Wall Region of Pebble-Bed Reactors
Reger, D., Merzari, E., Balestra, P., Schunert, S., Hassan, Y., Yuan, H., Lan, Y. H., Fischer, P. & Min, M., 2023, In: Nuclear Technology. 209, 1, p. 90-104 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
LES simulation on heavy liquid metal flow in a bare rod bundle for assessment of turbulent Prandtl number
Yu, Y., Shemon, E. & Merzari, E., Apr 1 2023, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 404, 112175.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Analysis of turbulent flow and thermal structures in low-Prandtl number buoyant flows using direct numerical simulations
Bhushan, S., Elmellouki, M., Walters, D. K., Hassan, Y. A., Merzari, E. & Obabko, A., Jun 15 2022, In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 189, 122733.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Assessment of low- and high-fidelity turbulence models for heat transfer predictions in low-prandlt number flows
Bhushan, S., Elmellouki, M., Jamal, T., Busco, G., Walters, D. K., Hassan, Y. A., Merzari, E. & Obabko, A., Mar 2022, In: Nuclear Engineering and Design. 388, 111614.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A multi-stage approach of simulating turbulence-induced vibrations in a wire-wrapped tube bundle for fretting wear prediction
Dolfen, H., De Ridder, J., Brockmeyer, L., Merzari, E., Kennedy, G., Van Tichelen, K. & Degroote, J., Feb 2022, In: Journal of Fluids and Structures. 109, 103460.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
CFD Evaluation of Pressure Change Along Coolant Passages in Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor with Nek5000
Fang, J., Yu, Y., Yuan, H., Merzari, E. & Shaver, D. R., 2022, In: Nuclear Technology. 208, 8, p. 1233-1243 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Inertial Effects and Anisotropy for the Flow in a Domain of Close Packed Spheres with a Bounding Wall
Fick, L. H., Merzari, E. & Hassan, Y. A., 2022, In: Nuclear Technology. 208, 3, p. 539-561 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
NekRS, a GPU-accelerated spectral element Navier–Stokes solver
Fischer, P., Kerkemeier, S., Min, M., Lan, Y. H., Phillips, M., Rathnayake, T., Merzari, E., Tomboulides, A., Karakus, A., Chalmers, N. & Warburton, T., Dec 2022, In: Parallel Computing. 114, 102982.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Turbulent Channel Flow With Spatially Dependent Viscosity: A Numerical Study
Leite, V. C. & Merzari, E., Jan 2022, In: Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME. 144, 1, 011303.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Coupled Monte Carlo and thermal-fluid modeling of high temperature gas reactors using Cardinal
Novak, A. J., Andrs, D., Shriwise, P., Fang, J., Yuan, H., Shaver, D., Merzari, E., Romano, P. K. & Martineau, R. C., Nov 2022, In: Annals of Nuclear Energy. 177, 109310.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Generation of localized reactor point kinetics parameters using coupled neutronic and thermal fluid models for pebble-bed reactor transient analysis
Stewart, R., Balestra, P., Reger, D. & Merzari, E., Sep 1 2022, In: Annals of Nuclear Energy. 174, 109143.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Modal Decomposition of the Flow in a Randomly Packed Pebble Bed with Direct Numerical Simulation
Yildiz, M. A., Merzari, E., Nguyen, T. & Hassan, Y. A., 2022, In: Nuclear Technology. 208, 8, p. 1279-1289 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
GPU algorithms for Efficient Exascale Discretizations
Abdelfattah, A., Barra, V., Beams, N., Bleile, R., Brown, J., Camier, J. S., Carson, R., Chalmers, N., Dobrev, V., Dudouit, Y., Fischer, P., Karakus, A., Kerkemeier, S., Kolev, T., Lan, Y. H., Merzari, E., Min, M., Phillips, M., Rathnayake, T., Rieben, R., & 7 others , Dec 2021, In: Parallel Computing. 108, 102841.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review