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The Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry is pleased to host a special research and teaching seminar by Ben Beeler on Thursday March 5th and Friday March 6th, respectively, in WB-215 and/or virtually on teams.
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RESEARCH SEMINAR: March 5th from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (WB-215 or on MS Teams)
Title: Atomistic simulations of advanced nuclear fuels to drive fuel performance modeling
Abstract:
Advanced reactors are driving the frontiers of research and development in the energy sector. While pushing for accelerated development timelines, a thorough understanding of these systems and their constituent materials is required for licensing and deployment. Mechanistically informed fuel performance modeling is a tool for accelerated qualification, but also requires lower-length scale modeling and experiments for proper description. Specifically, atomistically-informed properties, behaviors, and phenomena can reduce uncertainty and directly inform engineering scale models, while also informing experimental efforts and interpretation. In this talk, I will show some examples of atomistic scale simulations which are informing engineering scale fuel performance simulations, identifying the core multiscale modeling framework behind mechanistic fuel performance modeling.
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TEACHING SEMINAR: March 6th from 10:00 – 11:00 am (WB-215 or on MS Teams)
Title: Introduction to Stress Corrosion Cracking
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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Benjamin Beeler is an Associate Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Department at NCSU. He 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. Before 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 an expert in density functional theory and molecular dynamics, and currently maintains a group of 10+ graduate and undergraduate students pursuing research on advanced nuclear materials and related systems.