Elia Merzari

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Titles and Affiliations
Associate Professor, Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 othersStitt, T., Tomboulides, A., Tomov, S., Tomov, V., Vargas, A., Warburton, T. & Weiss, K., Dec 2021, In: Parallel Computing. 108, 102841.

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