Thien D. Nguyen Senior R&D Staff Contact . . | NGUYEND@ORNL.GOV All Publications Numerical Study of Near-Isothermal Liquid Piston Compression with a Liquid Droplet Injection Using Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Coupled with Lagrangian-Eulerian Model Aerosol and Gas Transport in Ventilation Ducts in Non-Reactor Nuclear Facilities Investigation of Point-Contact Strategies for CFD Simulations of Pebble-Bed Reactor Cores Liquid piston with spray cooling near-isothermal compressor CRADA NFE-22-09321 Final Report – Isothermal Compressor Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations Preliminary experimental and numerical studies of light-core vortex rings... Development of proof-of-concept technique for particle deposition removal using high-power ultrasound Correlation Models of Radioactive Particle Deposition in Ventilation Ducts in Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities... Design of Instrumentation for Noble Gas Transport in LSTL Needed for Model Development Ultrasonic Nondestructive Diagnosis of Cylindrical Batteries Under Various Charging Rates... Numerical Study of Liquid Piston Compression Using Large-Eddy Simulation and Volume-of-Fluid Approach Numerical Study of Fission Particle Transport in Ventilation Ducts in Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities: Case Study of Circular and Square Ducts with T-Junctions Design and Testing of the Vortex Ring Facility Investigation of Point-Contact Strategies for CFD Simulations of Pebble Bed Reactor Cores Numerical Investigation of Cartridge Heater Performance Applied to the FASTR Main Heater for Molten Chloride Salts Investigating Thermal Hydraulics Performance of a New Test Section Designed for the LSTL FLiNaK Using CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling to Simulate a Combined Reforming Process for Syngas and Hydrogen Production Key Links Curriculum Vitae Organizations Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division Advanced Reactor Engineering and Development Section Energy Systems Development Group