Selected Publications

Small Modular Reactors

Preliminary analysis of an integral Small Modular Reactor operating in a submerged containment
Progress in Nuclear Energy 107 (2018) 90–99

The design and safety features of IRIS reactor
Nuclear Engineering & Design 230 (2004) 151-167

Lead Cooled Fast Reactors

Modelling and Control Strategy of the Italian LBE-XADS
Progress in Nuclear Energy 48 (2006) 578-589

Object-oriented modelling and simulation for the ALFRED dynamics
Progress in Nuclear Energy 71 (2014) 15-29

Molten Salt Fast Reactors

The molten salt reactor (MSR) in generation IV: Overview and perspectives
Progress in Nuclear Energy 77 (2014) 308-319

Investigation of the MSFR core physics and fuel cycle characteristics
Progress in Nuclear Energy 68 (2013) 153-168

Thermal Fluid Dynamics & Passive Safety

Design Safety Considerations for Water Cooled Small Modular Reactors Incorporating Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Daiichi Accident
IAEA TECDOC 1785 (2016)

Flow boiling heat transfer in a helically coiled steam generator for nuclear power applications
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 92 (2016) 91-99

Simulation & Control, Multiphysics

A Multi-Physics Modelling Approach to the Dynamics of Molten Salt Reactors
Annals of Nuclear Energy 38 (2011) 1356-1372

Development of an OpenFOAM model for the Molten Salt Fast Reactor transient analysis
Chemical Engineering Science 111 (2014) 390-401

Reduced Order Modelling

POD-Galerkin method for finite volume approximation of Navier-Stokes and RANS equations
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 311 (2016) 151-179

Comparison of a Modal Method and a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition approach for multi-group time-dependent reactor spatial kinetics
Annals of Nuclear Energy 71 (2014) 217-229

Economics

Load following of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) by cogeneration of hydrogen: A techno-economic analysis
Energy 148 (2018) 494-505

Economics and financing of small modular reactors (SMRs)
on “Handbook of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors”, Woodhead Pub., 2014

Fuel, Fuel Cycle & Performance

Physics-based modelling of fission gas swelling and release in UO2 applied to integral fuel rod analysis
Nuclear Engineering and Design 256 (2013) 75-86

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of fission gas behavior in engineering-scale fuel modeling
Journal of Nuclear Materials 456 (2015) 398-408

Thermal Mechanics

Finite Element Limit Analysis of Anisotropic Structures
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 195/41-43, (2006) 5422-5436

Collapse of Thick Cylinders under Radial Pressure and Axial Load, Journal of Applied Mechanics
Transactions of the ASME 72 (2005) 564-569

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.: prof. Marco Ricotti
.: prof. Antonio Cammi
.: prof. Lelio Luzzi

 

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