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Bismark Tyobeka
Ph.D. Candidate
The Pennsylvania State University
334 Reber Building
University Park, PA 16802 |
Phone: (814) 863 - 3926
Email: bmt128@psu.edu
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Technical Interests: Reactor kinetics and dynamics, Nuclear fuel management,
Coupled space-kinetics/thermal-hydraulics modeling, HTGR Core Design and
Safety Analysis
Current Work:
| 1. |
HTGR Core Physics Benchmarks |
| 2. |
Xenon-induced core power fluctuations in the PBMR Reactor |
| 3. |
Coupling the NEM code with Thermix-Direkt computer code for PBMR
transient analysis |
List of publications:
| 9. |
B. Tyobeka, K. Ivanov “Analysis of the PBMR-268 transient benchmark using the NEM-THERMIX coupled code. Presented at the ANS 2004 Winter Meeting, Washington D.C.,USA |
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F. Reitsma, J.B.M. de Haas, B. Tyobeka, K. Ivanov and D.F. Da Cruz PBMR Steady State and Coupled Kinetics Core Thermal-Hydraulics Test Problems” Presented at the ANS 2004 National Meeting, Pittsburg, USA |
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T. Downar, and D. Lee K. Ivanov, B. Tyobeka, and R. Mphahlele Development of Advanced Multi-Dimensional Coupled-Code Computational Capability for Design and Safety Analysis of NGNP Presented at the ANS 2004 National Meeting, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,USA |
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B.Tyobeka, K. Ivanov: “Development of an advanced coupled neutronics/thermalhydraulic calculational code system for the analysis of the High Temperature Reactors (HTGRs)”, Presented at the ANS 2004 National Meeting, Pittsburg, USA |
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B.Tyobeka, K. Ivanov: “Coupled neutronics/thermalhydraulic benchmark calculations for the safety analysis of the PBMR”, Presented and published at PHYSOR2004 Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Bismark Tyobeka, Kostadin Ivanov, Tom Downar, Deokjung Lee and Frederik Reitsma "Comparative Analysis of PBMR Core Physics Test Problems", Full paper published in the Proceedings of ANS 2003 Mathematics and Computational Methods, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA. |
| 3. |
Bismark Tyobeka, Kostadin Ivanov, "PBMR Core Physics Benchmarks", Presented at the ANS 2003 Students Conference Berkeley, California, USA |
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Bismark Tyobeka, Kostadin Ivanov, Tom Downar,Deokjung Lee and Frederik Reitsma "Comparative Analysis of PBMR Core Physics Test Problems", Abstract published in the Proceedings of the ANS 2002 Winter Meeting, Washington D.C, USA |
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Bismark Tyobeka, “Developing a neutron detector model in the OSCAR-3 code and validation for the Koeberg reactor calculations “, Master Thesis, University of North-West, Mmabatho, South Africa, 2001 |
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