NE Seminars

Thursday, August 23, 2007

• Dr. Hany Abdel-Khalik
  Visiting Assistant Professor
  Department of Nuclear Engineering
  NC State University

• "Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Simulation's Recent Developments at NCSU"

• Abstract:
  This talk will overview recent research activities at NCSU focused on the development of advanced sensitivity, uncertainty and adaptive simulation techniques. While being traditional engineering and research-oriented tools, these techniques have been identified by the nuclear engineering community to be integral components of next generation simulation tools. This is because simulation is expected to play a major role in assisting the design and evaluation of advanced nuclear reactor technology; thereby reducing the reliance on expensive experimentation. To achieve that, simulation tools must be able to not only produce highly accurate predictions of reactor states; but also aid the design, operation, and experimentation efforts by providing insight to areas where further research and development efforts should be prioritized. This can be achieved through the use of advanced sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification techniques.

• Biographical sketch:
  Hany Abdel-Khalik received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in the area of computational reactor physics with focus on the use of sensitivity, uncertainty, and inverse methods to enhance the quality of nuclear reactor calculations. After graduation, he joined the methods group at AREVA-NP's PWR Engineering Unit. He now holds a visiting assistant professor position in the department of nuclear engineering at NCSU. Hany is expected to be the first INL-NCSU joint appointee starting October 1 st , 2007.
  

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