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combustion community as the ; ray-Moss-Libby ;; ML; model on the thermochemistry
of premixed turbulent combustion. His flamelet model is now used universally in different
forms. ; ray theoretically discovered the phenomena of counter diffusion transport
in turbulent premixed flames; which was then verified by experiments. His work
on turbulent combustion is a landmark that is widely used by other researchers in the
field. His teaching and mentoring abilities have inspired generations of researchers;
and many of his students hold leadership positions in industry and at academic institutions
worldwide.
; ray has authored; co-authored more than 1; 0 research papers and has presented
many invited talks. He served as editor of !9!,!!!39n an. !la!/ ;1; ; 1–; ; ;.
He is a ; ellow of the Royal Society. ; ray;s other honors include the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Energy Systems Award ;1; ; ; ; and The
Combustion Institute;s ; ernard Lewis ; old Medal ;1; ; ; ;.
; ray earned his bachelor;s degree in engineering; with first class honors; from the
- niversity of Cambridge in 1; ; ; ; his master;s degree in engineering from Princeton
- niversity; N.;.; in 1; ; ; ; and his Ph.D. in engineering from Southampton - niversity
in 1; ; 1.
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ELIA MER2 ARI; Ph.D.; principal nuclear engineer; Argonne National Laboratory
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Dr. Merzari received his bachelor;s degree in engineering;
under the supervision of Dr. Marco E. Ricotti;
and his master;s degree in nuclear engineering from
Politecnico di Milano in 200; and 200; ; respectively. In
200; he received his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from
the Tokyo Institute of Technology; under the supervision
of Dr. Hisashi Ninokata; with a thesis on the use
of advanced computational fluid dynamics techniCues
to simulate the flow in rod bundles. After graduation
he remained at the institute as a ;SPS ;;apan Society for
the Promotion of Science; fellow. In 200; Merzari ;oined
Argonne National Laboratory ;Lemont; Ill.; as a postdoctoral
fellow and; in 2010; as a staff member. He is
now a principal nuclear engineer and holds a ;oint
appointment in the Mathematics and Computer Science
and the Nuclear Engineering divisions.
At Argonne; Merzari;s work relies on predictive large-scale simulations of turbulence
to improve the physical understanding of complex flows and to ultimately design
safer and more efficient nuclear reactors. He has received several awards related to
these efforts in the area of high-performance computing ;HPC;. Recently Merzari led
the coupled simulation team of SHARP ;simulation-based high-efficiency advanced
reactor prototyping;; which produced groundbreaking results including the first fully
coupled calculation of all physics involved in reactor core simulations at high fidelity.
He is currently leading a HIP ;high impact problem; pro;ect on flow induced vibrations
in advanced steam generators that is funded by the - .S. Department of Energy;s
NEAMS ;Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling Simulation; program.
Merzari has more than ; 0 publications in ;ournals and refereed conference proceedings.
He serves on the editorial advisory board for !-l/a!!n13n//!3n1 an. !/!31n.
An ASME member; Merzari is vice chair of the ; luids Engineering Division;s ;; ED;
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