FY 2006 Nuclear Engineering Education Research (NEER) Grants |
Proposal Title |
Principal Investigator |
University/
Campus |
Supercritical CO2 Studies: Micro-channel Heat Transfer for Reactor Heat Exchangers and Cycle Design |
Michael L. Corradini/Pavel Hejzlar |
University of Wisconsin-Madison/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
A Study of Spent Fuel Dissolution Rates in Geological Storage Using Dosimetry Modeling and Experimental Verification |
William H. Miller |
University of Missouri - Columbia
|
Interfacial Area Transport and Regime Transition of Two-Phase Flow in Combinatorial Flow Channels |
Seungjin Kim |
University of Missouri - Rolla
|
Experimental Investigation of Alpha Convection |
Shoaid Usman |
University of Missouri - Rolla |
Improved Growth Methods for LaBr3 Scintillation Radiation Detectors |
Dougas S. McGregor |
Kansas State University
|
Two-phase Heat Transfer in Water-Based Nanofluids for Nuclear Applications |
Jacopo Buongiorno |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Intelligent Component Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plants |
Lefteri H. Tsoukalas |
Purdue University |
Bioassay Phantoms Using Medical Images and Computer Aided Manufacturing |
Xie George Xu |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
3-D Deep Penetration Neutron Imaging of Thick Absorbing and Diffusive Objects Using Transport Theory |
Jean C. Ragusa |
Texas A&M University |
Nanopore/Nanotube Isotope Battery (NPIB/NTIB) |
George H. Miley |
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign |
Lattice Boltzmann Method to Address Fundamental Boiling and Two-phase Problems |
Rizwan Uddin |
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign |
Thermal Cooling Limits of Sabotaged Spent Fuel Pools |
Thomas G. Hughes/Richard Lahey |
Pennsylvania State University/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
A Generalized Bolzmann Fokker-Planck (GBFP) Method for Coupled Charged Paticle Transport |
Anil K. Prinja |
University of New Mexico
|
Multi-Scale Control and Enhancement of Reactor Boiling Heat Flux by Reagents and Nanoparticles |
Raj M. Manglik |
University of Cincinnati |
MicroCT-Based Skeletal Models for Use in Tomographic Voxel Phantoms for Radiological Protection |
Wesley E. Bolch |
University of Florida |
Advanced TRISO Fuels with Zirconium Carbide for Very Hight Temperature Reactors |
Travis W. Knight |
University of South Carolina |
Development of Silicon Carbide Inert Matrix Fuel Pellet for Improved Plutonium Recycle |
Hans J. Seifert |
University of Florida |