报告摘要：Reactor physicists are nuclear engineers who predominantly deal with the neutron physics (i.e. neutronics) aspects of a reactor and its associated components. The primary task of a reactor physicist is to predict detailed neutron behavior in a reactor during both normal operation and abnormal events. Nowadays, these missions are mainly completed via numerical modeling and simulation techniques, relying heavily on computer equipment and computational methodologies. Compared to other research areas such as thermal hydraulics and materials science, reactor physics remains as a fundamental, yet intangible, and relatively matured realm in the nuclear engineering discipline; years of accumulated understanding in physics and advancements in mathematics have achieved enormous success in solving many reactor physics problems. However, any remaining unsolved problems are generally onerous and unamiable.
This talk will encompass the history and prospective future of R&D endeavors in reactor physics, with a particular emphasis on the role of computational reactor physicists in the new nuclear energy era. The speaker will expand the topic with a connection to his own career development as a reactor physics practitioner, and include narratives of three interesting reactor design projects he has worked or been working on. The talk will be wrapped up with a summary of challenging and contingent research topics in computational reactor physics.

报告人简介：Dr. Zeyun Wu (吴泽云) is currently Research Associate in the Department of Material Sciences and Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD). With this role, he is working as Lead Nuclear Engineer at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in charge of a replacement research reactor design project. Prior to joining UMD and NIST, he has had post-doc trainings at the Purdue University and North Carolina State University, respectively. Dr. Wu received his Bachelor degree from Tsinghua University at Beijing China and Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University, both in nuclear engineering. His research interest includes reactor physics, reactor design and analysis, computational methods on neutron transport and uncertainty analysis for nuclear applications, etc.

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王侃   62783087   wangkan@tsinghua.edu.cn