Kostadin Ivanov
Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Head of Department of Nuclear Engineering
ANS Fellow
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences' Marin Drinov Honorary Medal
Member of Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD
Chair of Working Party on innovative issues and uncertainty analysis of Reactor Systems (WPRS), Nuclear Science Committee (NSC), NEA/OECD
Member of Executive Committee of Nuclear Engineering Department Head Organization (NEDHO)
Member of Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Advisory Board
Member of Scientific Advisory Committee of Division of Nuclear Energy and Safety (NES) at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Member of Advisory Board of the Nuclear Engineering Program at University of Florida
Member of Advisory Board of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University
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Dr. Kostadin Ivanov received a B.S. in nuclear engineering from the Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, Russia. He received his Ph.D. in reactor physics from the Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He was senior research scientist at INRNE and assistant professor at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Later, he was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Nuclear Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and visiting scientist at the Research Center Rossendorf Inc., Germany. Prior to joining the NC State faculty, he was a distinguished professor of nuclear engineering and graduate coordinator of nuclear engineering program at PSU.
Presently he studies the next generation stochastic and deterministic methods in reactor physics analysis and also nuclear cross-section generation and modeling. Ivanov also develops advanced methods for multi-physics coupling for design and safety applications. Another topic is the study of verification and validation methods as well as uncertainty quantification and propagation in modeling and simulations.
Education
Reactor Physics
Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Nuclear Engineering
Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, Russia
Research Description
Dr. Ivanov's research interests include nuclear reactor physics and multi-physics, nuclear core design and safety analysis, nuclear plant simulations, validation and verification of multi-physics calculations, and uncertainty quantification and propagation in modeling and simulation.
Publications
- A hybrid neutronics method with novel fission diffusion synthetic acceleration for criticality calculations
- Chen, J., Hou, J., & Ivanov, K. (2023), NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, 55(4), 1428–1438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2022.12.022
- Challenge for the validation of high-fidelity multi-physics LWR modeling and simulation: Development of new experiments in research reactors
- Vaglio-Gaudard, C., Destouches, C., Hawari, A., Avramova, M., Ivanov, K., Valentine, T., … Hudelot, J.-P. (2023), FRONTIERS IN ENERGY RESEARCH, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2023.1110979
- Development of an efficient and improved core thermal-hydraulics predictive capability for fast reactors: Summary of research and development activities at the North Carolina state University
- Takasugi, C., Aly, A., Holler, D., Abarca, A., Beeler, B., Avramova, M., & Ivanov, K. (2023), NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN, 412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2023.112474
- Fuel performance uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis in the presence of epistemic and aleatoric sources of uncertainties
- Faure, Q., Delipei, G., Petruzzi, A., Avramova, M., & Ivanov, K. (2023), FRONTIERS IN ENERGY RESEARCH, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2023.1112978
- Prediction and uncertainty quantification of SAFARI-1 axial neutron flux profiles with neural networks
- Moloko, L. E., Bokov, P. M., Wu, X., & Ivanov, K. N. (2023), ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, 188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2023.109813
- Preservation of kinetics parameters generated by Monte Carlo calculations in two-step deterministic calculations
- Takasugi, C., Martin, N., Laboure, V., Ortensi, J., Ivanov, K., & Avramova, M. (2023), EPJ NUCLEAR SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES, 9. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2022056
- CTF-PARCS Core Multi-Physics Computational Framework for Efficient LWR Steady-State, Depletion and Transient Uncertainty Quantification
- Delipei, G. K., Rouxelin, P., Abarca, A., Hou, J., Avramova, M., & Ivanov, K. (2022), ENERGIES, 15(14). https://doi.org/10.3390/en15145226
- Extending a low-order inhomogeneous adjoint equations model to a higher-order model with verification on integral applications
- Altahhan, M. R., Geemert, R., Avramova, M., & Ivanov, K. (2022), ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2022.109277
- Propagation of VHTRC manufacturing uncertainties with RAVEN/PHISICS
- Rouxelin, P., Alfonsi, A., Strydom, G., Avramova, M., & Ivanov, K. (2022), ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, 165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2021.108667
- Development and verification of a higher-order mathematical adjoint nodal diffusion solver
- Altahhan, M. R., Geemert, R., Avramova, M., & Ivanov, K. (2021), ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, 163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2021.108548