July 24, 2026
28 min
High-Fidelity Thermal-Hydraulics: DNS as a Numerical Laboratory for Nuclear Safety
A tour of my doctoral research — from clean-sheet Fortran refactoring to direct numerical simulation of molten reactor core convection, a cautionary tale about non-uniform FFT Poisson solvers, and a mechanistic closure for nucleate boiling. Written for engineers, physicists, and anyone who thinks Fortran deserves more respect.