September 8, 2025 Students and faculty showcase thermal hydraulics breakthroughs at NURETH-21 Written By: Lili Sarajian Departments: Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics Categories: Faculty|Graduate|Research|Students Last week, students and faculty from the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics attended NURETH-21, the 21st International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, in Busan, South Korea. This conference is the foremost event for experts in nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, bringing together students and professionals around the world to advance the operation and development of new and existing nuclear technologies. PhD student Cole Dunbar presented on “Multi-field Simulation of Liquid Film Dryout in Rod Bundle Geometry.” Dunbar is part of the Heat Transfer and Safety Analysis (HEATS) Laboratory led by Associate Professor Juliana Pacheco Duarte. Duarte also presented an “Assessment of CTF Performance against Critical Heat Flux Rod Bundle Database,” the work of Vinicius de Melo Monteiro, a master’s student in her group. Ungjin Na, a POSTECH PhD student who spent six months at UW–Madison, presented “Extracting Bubble Information in Nucleate Boiling Using a Deep Learning Approach,” co-authored by HEATS PhD student Bruno Serrao. Juliana Pacheco Duarte co-chairs a technical session on two-phase flow fundamentals with Kyung Mo Kim from the Korea Institute of Energy Technology. PhD student Cole Dunbar presents on “Multi-Field Simulation of Liquid Film Dryout in Rod Bundle Geometry.”