The aim of this project is to foster a new scientific collaboration between the group of Prof. Baglietto at MIT and the SISSA mathLab, a research group in mathematical modeling and scientific computing in applied mathematics. The two research teams have extremely complementary skills and expertise. The two groups share the common objective of deploying cost effective high-fidelity simulation methods that can provide increased physical accuracy and augmented engineering reliability. While the group at MIT has been focusing on the aspects of CFD simulation efficiency and physical model uncertainty quantification, the SISSA team has made great strides in demonstrating reduced order methods which have the potential to leverage the MIT solutions and provide the computational efficiency necessary to support the industrial deployment of the high-fidelity techniques for reactor design, licensing and operation. The collaboration will allow the MIT to leverage the expertise and experience in non-intrusive reduced order methods developed in the last years by SISSA mathLab, while the MIT methods and the participation to the Department of Energy Center of Excellence for Nuclear Reactor thermal hydraulics methods will provide access to relevant experimental and computational databases that will enable the project performance.

KEYWORDS: high-fidelity simulations, reactor design, reliability

PROJECT DURATION: 2 years

PARTNER: SISSA MathLab, MIT

PEOPLE INVOLVED: Moaad Khamlich, Nicola Clinco, Federico Pichi, Gianluigi Rozza