Zurich, Switzerland
Ivor Clifford is currently the group leader for the System Behaviour group at the Paul Scherrer Institut, with a focus on thermal-fluids safety analysis and methods development for Light Water nuclear Reactors (LWRs). He obtained his PhD in 2013 and has worked as a scientist and researcher in the nuclear industry for more than 10 years. He has been extensively involved in the research, development, reverse engineering and maintenance of nuclear reactor safety analysis codes. He is a specialist in CFD and numerical methods development using the OpenFOAM framework.
Reactor Design and Fuel Management Group, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Doctoral research in Nuclear Engineering - Development of a three-dimensional time-dependent Simplified P3 neutronics solver - Development of a coarse mesh CFD solver for prismatic high temperature nuclear reactors - Development of hierarchical multi-scale CFD methods for prismatic high temperature reactors
Fuel Modeling and Simulation, Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP)
Fuel Modeling and Simulation, Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP)