Capabilities

Lab Capabilities

• LUNA ODiSI – Optical Distributed Sensor Interrogator – 2 channels
• NAC HX-3 5 Mega Pixel resolution at 2000 fps up to 1,300,000 frames per second
• Park XE7 Atomic Force Microscope
• UltiMaker 2+ 3D printer
• 5L 3,000 psia Autoclave with quartz window
• 5 kW power supply (0-20 Vdc, 0-250 Adc)
• ASTM B117 Corrosion test chamber

Research Tools

• Thermal-hydraulic system code: TRACE/SNAP (NRC)
• Subchannel analysis: COBRA-TF (CASL)
• Statistic software: OriginPro, Statistica
• Others: Mathematica, Matlab, Fortran, C/C++, Python, Labview.
• We also work in collaboration with research groups using MELCOR and CFD tools.

Research Interests

• Two-Phase Heat Transfer Phenomena
• Boiling Heat Transfer
• Critical Heat Flux (CHF)
• Post-CHF Heat Transfer
• Inverse Heat Transfer
  
• Computational System Analysis
• Subchannel Analysis
• Risk Analysis
• Safety