Home Page for John Mahaffy

Department of Nuclear Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University

231 Sackett Building, University Park, PA 16802

phone : (814) 865-0043 , fax : (814) 865-8499

jhm@cac.psu.edu

Courses

• CMPSC 201, Programming for Engineers, ( alternate 201 site )
• NucE 309, Analytical Techniques for Nuclear Concepts
• NucE 470, Power Plant Simulation
• NucE 501, Reactor Engineering

Research

• Computational fluid mechanics,
• Two-phase flow and heat transfer,
• Nuclear reactor safety analysis,
• Systems Simulation,
• Vector and parallel computational techniques.

Recent Papers and Seminars

• Enhanced Numerical Modeling of Manometer Based Oscillations by Discontinuity Tracking (Postscript)
  Birol Aktas and John Mahaffy (ANS Winter Meeting, San Francisco, Oct. 1995)
  
• A Two-Phase Level Tracking Method
  Birol Aktas and John Mahffy (to be published in Nuclear Engineering and Design)
  
• Analysis of the Return to Power Scenario Following a LBLOCA in a PWR
  Rafael Macian, Trevor N. Tyler, John H. Mahaffy
  (NURETH 7)