Wen Jiang
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Joint Faculty Appointment with INL
Burlington Laboratory 2156
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Dr. Wen Jiang is an Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and holds a joint faculty appointment with Idaho National Laboratory (INL). At NCSU, he leads a research group focused on multiphysics and multiscale computational materials and mechanics. His research spans advanced manufacturing, microstructure evolution, nuclear fuel performance, structural material mechanical behavior, computational fracture mechanics, and the integration of machine learning methods into physics-based modeling. Prior to joining NCSU, Dr. Jiang was a computational scientist in the Computational Mechanics and Materials Department at INL, where he worked on advanced computational methods for nuclear fuel and structural materials modeling. He is a key developer of the BISON nuclear fuel performance code, which received an R&D 100 Award in 2022.
Education
BS Aircraft Design Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2007
MS Solid Mechanics Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2009
PhD Mechanical Engineering and Material Science Duke University 2015
Publications
- A Strength-Augmented Phase-Field Fracture Framework for Crack Nucleation Using Arbitrary Data-Driven Strength Surfaces , SSRN Electronic Journal (2026)
- Implicit integration of a Mixture of Experts neural network surrogate elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model of HT9 steel in a finite element framework: Verification, comparative assessment, and validation , Finite Elements in Analysis and Design (2026)
- Implicit integration of a Mixture of Experts neural network surrogate elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model of HT9 steel in a finite element framework: verification, comparative assessment, and validation| , SSRN Electronic Journal (2026)
- Development, validation, and verification of multi-pass thermo-mechanical welding simulations using the open-source MOOSE framework: NeT TG4 benchmark weldment , International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping (2025)
- Evaluation of AGR-3/4 In-pile Silver Release Predictions Against Post-Irradiation Examination Measurements , Journal of Nuclear Materials (2025)
- Multi-Scale Modeling of the Evolution of Structure and Properties in Materials for Nuclear Energy Applications [Slides] , (2025)
- Multiphysics Fuel Performance Modeling of TRISO-Bearing Fuel in Advanced Reactor Environments , Nuclear Science and Engineering (2025)
- Multiscale, mechanistic modeling of cesium transport in silicon carbide for TRISO fuel performance prediction , npj Computational Materials (2025)
- Surrogate Model Integration with MOOSE XFEM for Creep Crack Growth , (2025)
- A mixed formulation of the plane-stress problem to facilitate reuse of constitutive models in finite-element programs , Mechanics Research Communications (2024)