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Prof. Kord S Smith
Korea Electric Power Company (KEPCO) Professor of the Practice of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Chief Scientist: DOE’s Office of Science, Center for Exascale Simulation of Advanced Reactors
Primary DLC
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
MIT Room:
24-221
(617) 252-1570
kord@mit.edu
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Modeling and Simulation of Reactor Cores
Computational Methods
High Performance Computing at the Exascale (10^18 FLOPS)
Research Summary
Development and application of computational physics methods for modeling and simulation of nuclear reactor cores: reactor physics analysis methods, fuel/core loading design and optimization, transient safety analysis, real-time operator training, and on-line plant monitoring.
Recent Work
Projects
December 27, 2011
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Reactor Analysis Methods
Principal Investigator
Kord Smith
December 27, 2011
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Computational Methods
Principal Investigator
Kord Smith
December 27, 2011
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
High Performance Computing (HPC)s
Principal Investigator
Kord Smith
Related Faculty
Dr. John M Dobbs
Research Affiliate
Prof. Sow-Hsin Chen
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Emeritus
Prof. Kent F Hansen
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Physics, Emeritus