Keynote lectures

Wenxi Tian (XJTU)

Prof. Wenxi Tian obtained his Ph. D on Nuclear Science and Technology from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2006. Then he started his career as a lecturer in Xi'an Jiaotong University. From Oct. 2007 to Apr. 2010, he did his post-doctoral research in Nuclear Engineering and management Department in the University of Tokyo. In Dec. 2014, he was promoted to be Professor. He is currently the dean of School of Nuclear Science and Technology of Xi'an Jiaotong University, the director of Shaanxi Key Lab on advanced nuclear energy technology. His research interests cover nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics and safety, two-phase flow and heat transfer, etc. He already published more than 150 journal papers, two monographs and one text book, fifteen invention patents and nuclear codes. He serves as editorial members of several international journals including Annals of Nuclear Energy, etc.

Stéphane Mimouni (EDF)

Stéphane Mimouni was born in Paris, France, in 1967. He received his French engineering degree (M.Sc.) in Aerospace in 1991 from ISAE. In 1996, he received his Ph.D. in fluids mechanics from the Ecole Polytechnique (“Fractal analysis of interfaces for the Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities”; the jury was made up of D. Besnard (eng. CEA), S. Jaffard (Prof.), G. Laval (Academy of Sc.), Y. Meyer (Academy of Sc.), Y. Pomeau (Academy of Sc.), B. Scheurer (eng. CEA), S. Zalesky (Prof.)). During his Ph.D., he has worked at CEA as research engineer on the subject “Fractal analysis for Rayleigh Taylor instabilities” for 4 years. He as also worked as engineer at The French Aeropace Lab ONERA - Department of Aerodynamics and Energetics Modelling, France on the subject of “Propergol explosion risk” for one year in 1992. He is currently expert research engineer at Électricité de France (EDF), France, since 1996. His research interests include multiphase flow, droplet flow, boiling flow, interface tracking, cavitation flow and turbulence in multiphase flows. He is author of over 100 publications in refereed journals and international congresses and has been chair of numerous international conferences (CFD4NRS and NURETH). He has also been actively involved in the organization of international events as member of scientific committees (SIMHYDRO 2014, NURETH 17). He participated in many European projects as leader of the EDF team: NURESIM, NURISP, NURESAFE, SARNET, SARNET2, SETH2 and HYMERES. He is currently implied in the European projects ESFR-SMART, SAMHYCO-NET, SAMOSAFER and OPERA.

Evgeny Shmelev (OKBM)

Evgeny Shmelev, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, since 2007 has been working in JSC Afrikantov OKBM, one of the leading design and engineering companies in nuclear sphere in Russia. He has over 10 years of experience in equipment vibrations measurements, performing experimental and numerical modal analysis of constructions. Scope of professional interests is flow induced vibration, coupled calculation of vibrations, fluid structure interaction problem.  At present his research is focused on verification and validation of the numerical calculations. He had been an assistant of professor at the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod from 2010 till 2018 and has over 30 publications.

Michael Prasser (ETH-Z)

Horst-Michael Prasser graduated at the Moscow Energy Institute and received his doctorate in 1984 from the Zittau University of Applied Sciences. After 19 years in Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany, he became full professor of Nuclear Energy Systems at ETH Zurich in April 2006. In Rossendorf, Prof. Prasser headed the Accident Analysis and Experimental Thermal Fluid Dynamics departments at the Institute for Safety Research and worked for the board of the institute in the phase of the restructuring during the process of German reunification. Important results were related to boron mixing in pressurized water obtained at the ROCOM facility developed under his lead, as well as numerous contributions to two-phase flow instrumentation and experimentation, including wire mesh sensors and time-resolved gamma and X-ray tomography and the design and exploitation of the TOPFLOW facility. At ETH Zurich, Prof. Prasser developed techniques for high-speed measurements of liquid film thickness distributions. Under his leadership of the Laboratory of Thermal Hydraulics at the Paul Scherrer Institute from 2007 till 2017, among others, a deuterium-deuterium plasma neutron source that is suitable for fast neutron imaging was built. The laboratory of Prof. Prasser provides contributions to the development of CFD codes used to describe single and two-phase flow phenomena in fuel elements of nuclear reactors. Other fields of activity are in the area of containment thermal-hydraulics, e.g. work on the distribution of hydrogen in severe accident scenarios and filtered containment pressure relief. Prof. Prasser played a key role in establishing the “Nuclear Engineering” master's degree, which has been offered jointly with EPF Lausanne since 2008. Between 2008 and 20011, Prasser was elected member of the board of the Swiss nuclear regulator ENSI.