Benjamin Beeler
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Joint Faculty Appointment with INL
- 919-515-3737
- bwbeeler@ncsu.edu
- Burlington Laboratory 1110C
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Dr. Beeler received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a post-doctoral researcher jointly at the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the NC State faculty, he was a computational scientist in the Computational Microstructure Science group in the Fuels Modeling and Simulation department at Idaho National Laboratory. He is the current lead of the Microstructure Fuel Performance Modeling working group for the United Stated High Performance Research Reactor program.
Education
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Description
His professional interests are atomistic description and evolution of nuclear fuel and structural materials. He has extensive experience on interatomic potential development, particularly related to uranium and uranium-alloys. He has studied a number of phenomena in nuclear materials including radiation damage, effects of strain on point defects, diffusion, free surface and grain boundary properties, fission gas bubbles, thermal transport and optical properties. His research has primarily utilized density functional theory, molecular dynamics and phase-field methods.
Publications
- Grain boundary self-diffusion and point defect interactions in α-U via molecular dynamics
- Mahbuba, K., Beeler, B., & Jokisaari, A. (2025), Journal of Nuclear Materials. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.155521
- A Finite Difference informed Random Walk solver for simulating radiation defect evolution in polycrystalline structures with strongly inhomogeneous diffusivity
- Mao, Z., Li, Y., Park, G., Beeler, B., & Hu, S. (2025), COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, 246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2024.113371
- Assessment of effective elastic constants of U-10Mo fuel: A multiscale modeling and homogenization study
- Kadambi, S. B., Aagesen, L. K., Zhang, Y., & Beeler, B. (2024), JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, 599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.155225
- Assessment of uranium nitride interatomic potentials
- AbdulHameed, M., Beeler, B., Galvin, C. O. T., & Cooper, M. W. D. (2024), JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, 60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.155247
- Calculation of grain boundary diffusion coefficients in γ U-Mo using atomistic simulations
- Hasan, A. T. M. J., & Beeler, B. (2024), JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, 598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.155190
- First-principles investigation of lanthanides diffusion in HCP zirconium via vacancy-mediated transport
- Shousha, S., Beeler, B., Aagesen, L. K., Beausoleil II, G. L., & Okuniewski, M. A. (2024), JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, 601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.155310
- First-principles investigation of the thermophysical properties of NaCl, PuCl3, and NaCl-PuCl3 Molten salts
- Duemmler, K., Andersson, D., & Beeler, B. (2024, April 1), JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, Vol. 591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.154902
- KCl-UCl3 molten salts investigated by Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics (AIMD) simulations: A comparative study with three dispersion models
- Andersson, D. A., Wang, G., Yang, P., & Beeler, B. W. (2024), JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, 599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.155226
- Magnetism and finite-temperature effects in UZr 2: A density functional theory analysis
- Shousha, S., & Beeler, B. (2024), JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS, 595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.155037
- Thermophysical properties and unexpected viscosity of liquid (U, Zr): An atomistic investigation
- Tranchida, J., Nicaud, F., Beeler, B. W., & Bourasseau, E. (2024), JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 160(21). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0203177
Grants
- Mechanical Response and Chemical effects at the Fuel-cladding Interface of HT-9 and Metallic Fuel
- US Dept. of Energy (DOE)(10/01/22 - 9/30/25)
- Integration of Microstructural Modeling
- US Dept. of Energy (DOE)(2/07/20 - 12/31/24)
- Modeling Failure Modes of TRISO Layers, CNP Core Project 11
- Consortium for Nuclear Power (CNP)- Dept of Nuclear Engineering(11/01/22 - 6/30/23)
- Ab Initio Modeling of Molten Salts - Release 28
- US Dept. of Energy (DOE)(3/09/20 - 9/30/22)
- Atomistic Investigations of Defects in Alpha U and UZR
- US Dept. of Energy (DOE)(1/21/20 - 9/30/22)