​Visiting Scholar Appointment

Dr. Wei Wang (pictured left) of STFC has been awarded the prestigious status of 'Visiting Scholar' in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, from 13th October 2021 to 31st March 2025. As the secretary of the Collaborative Computational Project in Nuclear and Thermal Hydraulics (CCP-NTH¹), and the main developer of the CCP-NTH Community code CHAPSim^​2, Wei supports a community of researchers and engineers to develop and maintain computational methods and software packages to modernise the nuclear thermal hydraulics tools. These computational methods and software packages are designed to meet the demands imposed through the development of advanced, next-generation nuclear reactor systems that are scheduled for deployment in the coming decades. 

In addition to enhancing the work of CCP-NTH, Dr. Wang's appointment builds and strengthens links between STFC's Computational Engineering Group³ and Prof. He's Group (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield).

​Official Launch of CCP5++

September 29th saw the offical launch of the CCP for Integrating Computer Simulation of Condensed Phases with experiments and data science^​4, CCP5++, which builds on the successes of CCP5, the CCP for Computer Simulation of Condensed Phases⁵​. The new network grant was launched with an invite-only meeting including participants Prof. Sir Richard Catlow, vice president of the Royal Society and former CCP5 chair, and Prof. Ignacio Pagonabarraga, director of CECAM⁵, Prof. Jonathnan Rowe of the Alan Turing Institute, and Prof. Peter Haynes of the Royce Institute and Psi-K president.  Prof Paola Carbone of the University of Manchester is the Principal Investigator of the network and Dr. Alin Elena of STFC is the Secretary and Co-Investigator.

¹​CCP-NTH aims to develop ​a strong, collaborative community in nuclear thermal hydraulics

²​CHAPSim is a A CHannel And Pipe flow simulation solver, CHAPSim, is an incompressible Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) code for flow and heat transfer with MPI parallelization

³​Computational Engineering Group combines leading-edge expertise in scientific modelling with the latest high-performance computing to solve complex and leading-edge engineering problems

​^​4CCP5++
⁵CCP5 ​​​
​⁶The (CECAM) ​Centre Europée​n de Calcul Atomique et Molé​culaire node at Daresbury Laboratory is hosted by STFC's Scientific Computing Department (SCD)​​​