GOKHAN YESILYURT
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Education
PHD
Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Ann Arbor, MI
Advisor: Prof. William R. Martin
Graduated in 2009
Employed as a graduate research assistant to develop simplified methodologies to allow accurate and efficient simulation of VHTR configurations accounting for temperature feedback and depletion.
Developed a cross platform Application Program Interface (API) to couple Monte Carlo code MCNP5 with multi-dimensional thermal-hydraulic code RELAP5-3D/ATHENA code and ORIGEN2 to account for temperature feedback for the VHTR full core heterogeneous and homogeneous configurations.
Developed methods to introduce double heterogeneity posed by the VHTR fuel into LWR lattice physics codes, using MCNP, CPM3 and HELIOS.
Developed efficient methods to Doppler broaden the cross sections on-the-fly during the random walk of the neutrons for the Monte Carlo (MC) applications to avoid nuclear data processing codes and externally generated temperature dependent nuclear data files at desired material temperatures.
Deployed and administered a computational clusters at NERS for Monte Carlo applications. Also employed by the Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) at the University of Michigan as a system administrator. Also hired by Medical School at the University of Michigan as a system administrator for their Linux cluster.
MSC
Nuclear Engineering
College Station, TX
Advisor: Prof. Yassin A. Hassan
Graduated in 2004
Employed as a graduate research assistant for the industrial applications of CFD codes to simulate Pebble Bed High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor's (HTGR) cores.
Performed simulations of turbulent transport for the gas through the gaps of the spherical fuel elements, using the large eddy simulation to understand the highly three-dimensional, complex flow phenomena caused by flow curvature in the pebble bed.
Other activities involve the investigation of aerosol particle tracking under turbulent flow conditions through complex geometries by commercial CFD codes. Resolution of flow field, modification of turbulent particle dispersion model and aerosol tracking through the air samplers under turbulent flow conditions included main research targets.
BSC
Nuclear Engineering
Ankara, Turkey
Advisor: Prof. Osman Kadiroglu
Graduated in 1999