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Jacopo Buongiorno
Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering
Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES)
Director, Science and Technology, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (NRL)
Primary DLC
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
MIT Room:
24-206
jacopo@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/buongiorno.html
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Design and Analysis of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Systems
Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer
Nanofluid Technology
Research Summary
Professor Jacopo Buongiorno is one of the world’s leading researchers in nuclear thermal hydraulics and boiling heat transfer. His investigations of the effects of nanoparticle dispersions in fluids on single-phase and multiphase heat transfer, his experimental studies of the impacts of solid-surface morphology and composition on boiling phenomena, and his development of advanced diagnostics enabling the quantitative characterization of these phenomena have produced results of importance for the design and safety analysis of light-water-cooled nuclear reactors. He is currently leading an NSE design team that is developing a new concept for an offshore floating nuclear power plant. Buongiorno is also a gifted teacher and mentor whose contributions to both undergraduate and graduate education have been recognized with many awards, including recently being named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow — MIT’s highest honor for undergraduate teaching and education. This year he received the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching -- an award he also won in 2006 and 2011.
Recent Work
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Prof. Jeffrey P Freidberg
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Prof. Sow-Hsin Chen
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Emeritus
Dr. John M Dobbs
Research Affiliate