Summer Computational Modeling Intern

The student will join a team of experts working on waste management for the U.S. Department of Energy. Computational modeling is needed to support tank waste vitrification. The processes occurring during vitrification in the waste glass melters include reaction chemistry, thermodynamics and heat/mass transport. The assigned work scope may also entail computational analysis for spent nuclear fuel canisters, specifically heat transfer and chemistry. The position will entail working with computational software, such as commercial or open-source computational fluid dynamics codes including STAR-CCM+ or Nek5000, on INL's supercomputer. The student will assist in developing computational models to represent the complex physics occurring in various scale melters.