Nuclear Engineering
Faculty and their Research
Faculty
and their research:
Yousry
Azmy, professor of nuclear engineering – Methods
and applications in nuclear computational science,
including numerical methods, interative acceleration
schemes, multiprocessing algorithms for deterministic
particles transport equations.
Jack
S. Brenizer, Jr., professor of nuclear and mechanical
engineering and program chair of nuclear engineering – Radiation
detection, neutron radiography, neutron activation
analysis, nuclear test ban treaty monitoring and
aerogel materials.
Gary
L. Catchen, professor of nuclear engineering – Characterization
of electronic, optical, and magnetic materials using
hyperfine interaction techniques such as perturbed
angular correlation spectroscopy; radiation detection
and measurement; nonlinear regression and optimization.
Fan-Bill
Cheung, professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering – Heat
transfer and thermal systems.
Robert
M. Edwards, professor of nuclear engineering – Power
plant simulation and control; application of artificial
intelligence and expert systems to power plant operations.
Lawrence
E. Hochreiter, professor of nuclear and mechanical
engineering – Reactor engineering
and design, single- and two-phase flow and heat transfer,
safety analysis models and methods, core thermal-hydraulic
methods and analysis.
Kostadin
N. Ivanov, professor of nuclear engineering – Three-dimensional
reactor core analysis, computational methods in reactor
statics and dynamics, thermal-hydraulic reactor system
transient modeling of power plants, coupled 3D kinetics/thermal-hydraulic
simulations and benchmarking, core design and fuel
management.
Edward
S. Kenney, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering – Radiation
instrumentation design, computer application to neutron
and gamma spectrum problems, radiation imaging, and
reactor control.
Edward
H. Klevans, professor and head emeritus of nuclear
engineering – Radiation instrumentation
for industrial application.
Samuel
H. Levine, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering – Fuel
management, reactor operations, neutron spectrum
and beta dosimetry measurements and calculations,
reactor design, and fast reactor physics.
John
H. Mahaffy, associate professor of nuclear engineering – Computational
fluid mechanics, two-phase flow and heat transfer,
nuclear reactor safety analysis, and vector and parallel
computational techniques.
Arthur
T. Motta, professor of nuclear engineering – Radiation
damage to materials, zirconium alloys, defects in
materials, phase transformations under irradiation.
Gordon
E. Robinson, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering – Boiling
heat transfer, reactor safety analysis, thermal-hydraulic
modeling of nuclear power plants.
Barry
E. Scheetz, professor of materials, civil and
nuclear engineering – Waste form development,
stability and environmental interaction, cement and
concrete for immobilization and isolation of wastes,
cement chemistry, nuclear and hazardous chemical
waste management, crystal chemistry and materials
characterization.
C.
Frederick Sears, director of the Radiation Science
and Engineering Center and senior scientist; affiliate
professor of nuclear engineering - Nuclear
safety and management; reactor operations, utilization,
and training; instrumentation and control; research
and service applications utilizing the RSEC facilities.
Kenan Ünlü,
associate director of the Radiation Science and Engineering
Center and senior scientist; professor of nuclear engineering – Development
and applications of nuclear analytical techniques;
neutron depth profiling, cold neutron prompt gamma
activation analysis, neutron radiography and neutron
activation analysis.
