Dr. Kostadin N. Ivanov
Distinguished Lecture at the Colorado School of Mines
Earth, Energy, and Environment focus areas
Nuclear Science and Engineering program

Advancing Multi-Physics Modeling and Simulation for Nuclear Power Applications

The presentation will give an overview of the activities of Reactor Dynamics and Fuel Modeling Group (RDFMG) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) on the development, verification and validation, and uncertainty quantification of multi-physics methodologies for design and safety analysis of nuclear power plants. It will discuss recent enhancements in deterministic and stochastic methods, advances in multi-scale and multi-physics modeling, and associated validation and uncertainty quantification. Examples of application of the developed high-to-low model information methods to single- and multi-physics calculations will be given. Special attention will be devoted to uncertainty propagation in LWR multi-physics and multi-scale simulations for design and safety evaluations.