Elia Merzari received his Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology with a thesis on the use of advanced computational fluid dynamics techniques to the simulation of flows in rod bundles. After graduation, he remained in the same institute as a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science fellow. In 2009, he joined Argonne National Laboratory, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a regular staff in 2010. At Argonne, Dr. Merzari served in several roles in the Nuclear Energy Advanced modeling and simulation (NEAMS) program, for which he is currently the thermal-fluids lead. In 2019, he joined the faculty at Penn State as an associate professor. Dr. Merzari’s research relies on predictive large-scale simulations of turbulence to improve our physical understanding of complex flows and to ultimately design safer and more efficient nuclear reactors. He has received several awards related to these efforts in the area of high performance computing including: ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award, ASME's George Westinghouse Silver Medal, and a R&D100 award.

Dr. Merzari's CV

• BS, Mechanical Engineering/ Energy System Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2003
• MS, Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2005
• Ph D, Nuclear Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2008

Journal Articles

A. Mathur, A. Kraus, Elia Merzari and E. M.J. Komen, 2024, "Direct numerical simulation of a pressurized thermal shock scenario at higher reynolds number", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 224

Elia Merzari, Victor Coppo Leite, Jun Fang, Dillon Shaver, Misun Min, Stefan Kerkemeier, Paul E Fischer and Ananias Tomboulides, 2024, "Energy Exascale Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations With the Spectral Element Method", Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 146, (4)

Ryan Stewart, Paolo Balestra, David Reger, Elia Merzari and Gerhard Strydom, 2024, "High-fidelity simulations of the run-in process for a pebble-bed reactor", Annals of Nuclear Energy, 195

John Acierno and Elia Merzari, 2023, "On the role of low frequency modes in the thermal and momentum mixing in parallel plane jets", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 104

Tri Nguyen, David Reger, Dezhi Dai, Elia Merzari, Haomin Yuan, Brian Jackson and Giacomo Busco, 2023, "Large Eddy Simulation of Convective Heat Transfer in a Random Pebble Bed Using the Spectral Element Method", ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 145, (12)

Changhong Mou, Elia Merzari, Omer San and Traian Iliescu, 2023, "An energy-based lengthscale for reduced order models of turbulent flows", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 412

David Reger, Elia Merzari, Paolo Balestra, Ryan Stewart and Gerhard Strydom, 2023, "Discrete element simulation of Pebble Bed Reactors on graphics processing units", Annals of Nuclear Energy, 190

Arsen S. Iskhakov, Nam T. Dinh, Victor Coppo Leite and Elia Merzari, 2023, "Machine learning from RANS and LES to inform coarse grid simulations", Progress in Nuclear Energy, 163

Aaron Huxford, Victor Coppo Leite, Elia Merzari, Ling Zou, Victor Petrov and Annalisa Manera, 2023, "A hybrid domain overlapping method for coupling System Thermal Hydraulics and CFD codes", Annals of Nuclear Energy, 189

Yiqi Yu, Emily Shemon and Elia Merzari, 2023, "LES simulation on heavy liquid metal flow in a bare rod bundle for assessment of turbulent Prandtl number", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 404

David Reger, Elia Merzari, Paolo Balestra, Sebastian Schunert, Yassin Hassan and Haomin Yuan, 2023, "An improved pressure drop correlation for modeling localized effects in a pebble bed reactor", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 403

Victor C. Leite, Elia Merzari, Roberto Ponciroli and Lander Ibarra, 2023, "Convolutional Neural Network–Aided Temperature Field Reconstruction: An Innovative Method for Advanced Reactor Monitoring", Nuclear Technology

A. J. Novak, P. Shriwise, P. K. Romano, R. Rahaman, Elia Merzari and D. Gaston, 2023, "Coupled Monte Carlo Transport and Conjugate Heat Transfer for Wire-Wrapped Bundles Within the MOOSE Framework", Nuclear Science and Engineering

Arsen S. Iskhakov, Cheng Kai Tai, Igor A. Bolotnov, Tri Nguyen, Elia Merzari, Dillon R. Shaver and Nam T. Dinh, 2023, "Data-Driven RANS Turbulence Closures for Forced Convection Flow in Reactor Downcomer Geometry", Nuclear Technology

E. M.A. Frederix, S. Tajfirooz, J. A. Hopman, Jidong Fang, Elia Merzari and E. M.J. Komen, 2023, "Two-Phase Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget Computation in Co-Current Taylor Bubble Flow", Nuclear Science and Engineering

David Reger, Elia Merzari, Paolo Balestra, Sebastian Schunert, Yassin Hassan, Haomin Yuan, Yu Hsiang Lan, Paul E Fischer and Misun Min, 2023, "Pressure Drop Correlation Improvement for the Near-Wall Region of Pebble-Bed Reactors", Nuclear Technology, 209, (1), pp. 90-104

E. M.J. Komen, A. Mathur, F. Roelofs, Elia Merzari and I. Tiselj, 2023, "Status, perspectives, and added value of high fidelity simulations for safety and design", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 401

Carolina da Bourdot Dutra, Elia Merzari, John Acierno, Adam Kraus, Annalisa Manera, Victor Petrov, Taehwan Ahn, Pei Hsun Huang and Dillon Shaver, 2023, "High-Fidelity Modeling and Experiments to Inform Safety Analysis Codes for Heat Pipe Microreactors", Nuclear Technology, 209, (10), pp. 1592-1616

Victor Coppo Leite, Elia Merzari, Jiaxin Mao, Victor Petrov and Annalisa Manera, 2023, "High-Fidelity Simulation of Mixing Phenomena in Large Enclosures", Nuclear Science and Engineering

Adam R. Kraus, Elia Merzari, Mathieu Martin, Dustin Langewisch and Yassin Hassan, 2023, "High-Fidelity Simulations of Shield Assembly Mixed-Convection Flows with Applications Toward Reduced-Resolution Modeling", Nuclear Science and Engineering

Arsen S. Iskhakov, Victor Coppo Leite, Elia Merzari and Nam T. Dinh, 2023, "Data-Driven High-to-Low for Coarse Grid System Thermal Hydraulics", Nuclear Science and Engineering

David Reger, Elia Merzari, Paolo Balestra, Sebastian Schunert, Yassin Hassan and Stephen King, 2023, "Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation of a 67–Pebble Bed Experiment", Nuclear Technology

Carolina Bourdot Dutra, Luiz Aldeia Machado and Elia Merzari, 2023, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in a 7-Pin Wire-Wrapped Rod Bundle", Nuclear Science and Engineering

Tri Nguyen and Elia Merzari, 2023, "Direct Numerical Simulation of High Prandtl Number Fluid Flow in the Downcomer of an Advanced Reactor", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 197, (10), pp. 2634-2659

Cheng Kai Tai, Tri Nguyen, Arsen S. Iskhakov, Elia Merzari, Nam T. Dinh and Igor A. Bolotnov, 2023, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Low and Unitary Prandtl Number Fluids in Reactor Downcomer Geometry", Nuclear Technology

Tri Nguyen, Elia Merzari, Cheng Kai Tai, Igor A. Bolotnov and Brian Jackson, 2023, "Toward Improved Correlations for Mixed Convection in the Downcomer of Molten Salt Reactors", Nuclear Technology

Paul E Fischer, Stefan Kerkemeier, Misun Min, Yu Hsiang Lan, Malachi Phillips, Thilina Rathnayake, Elia Merzari, Ananias Tomboulides, Ali Karakus, Noel Chalmers and Tim Warburton, 2022, "NekRS, a GPU-accelerated spectral element Navier–Stokes solver", Parallel Computing, 114

A. J. Novak, D. Andrs, P. Shriwise, J. Fang, H. Yuan, D. Shaver, Elia Merzari, P. K. Romano and R. C. Martineau, 2022, "Coupled Monte Carlo and thermal-fluid modeling of high temperature gas reactors using Cardinal", Annals of Nuclear Energy, 177

Ryan Stewart, Paolo Balestra, David Reger and Elia Merzari, 2022, "Generation of localized reactor point kinetics parameters using coupled neutronic and thermal fluid models for pebble-bed reactor transient analysis", Annals of Nuclear Energy, 174

S. Bhushan, M. Elmellouki, D. K. Walters, Y. A. Hassan, Elia Merzari and A. Obabko, 2022, "Analysis of turbulent flow and thermal structures in low-Prandtl number buoyant flows using direct numerical simulations", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 189

S. Bhushan, M. Elmellouki, T. Jamal, G. Busco, D. K. Walters, Y. A. Hassan, Elia Merzari and A. Obabko, 2022, "Assessment of low- and high-fidelity turbulence models for heat transfer predictions in low-prandlt number flows", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 388

Henri Dolfen, Jeroen De Ridder, Landon Brockmeyer, Elia Merzari, Graham Kennedy, Katrien Van Tichelen and Joris Degroote, 2022, "A multi-stage approach of simulating turbulence-induced vibrations in a wire-wrapped tube bundle for fretting wear prediction", Journal of Fluids and Structures, 109

Lambert H. Fick, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2022, "Inertial Effects and Anisotropy for the Flow in a Domain of Close Packed Spheres with a Bounding Wall", Nuclear Technology, 208, (3), pp. 539-561

Mustafa Alper Yildiz, Elia Merzari, Thien Nguyen and Yassin A. Hassan, 2022, "Modal Decomposition of the Flow in a Randomly Packed Pebble Bed with Direct Numerical Simulation", Nuclear Technology, 208, (8), pp. 1279-1289

Victor Coppo Leite and Elia Merzari, 2022, "Turbulent Channel Flow With Spatially Dependent Viscosity: A Numerical Study", Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 144, (1)

Ahmad Abdelfattah, Valeria Barra, Natalie Beams, Ryan Bleile, Jed Brown, Jean Sylvain Camier, Robert Carson, Noel Chalmers, Veselin Dobrev, Yohann Dudouit, Paul E Fischer, Ali Karakus, Stefan Kerkemeier, Tzanio Kolev, Yu Hsiang Lan, Elia Merzari, Misun Min, Malachi Phillips, Thilina Rathnayake, Robert Rieben, Thomas Stitt, Ananias Tomboulides, Stanimire Tomov, Vladimir Tomov, Arturo Vargas, Tim Warburton and Kenneth M Weiss, 2021, "GPU algorithms for Efficient Exascale Discretizations", Parallel Computing, 108

Tzanio Kolev, Paul E Fischer, Misun Min, Jack Dongarra, Jed Brown, Veselin Dobrev, Tim Warburton, Stanimire Tomov, Mark S. Shephard, Ahmad Abdelfattah, Valeria Barra, Natalie Beams, Jean Sylvain Camier, Noel Chalmers, Yohann Dudouit, Ali Karakus, Ian Karlin, Stefan Kerkemeier, Yu Hsiang Lan, David Medina, Elia Merzari, Aleksandr Obabko, Will Pazner, Thilina Rathnayake, Cameron W. Smith, Lukas Spies, Kasia Swirydowicz, Jeremy Thompson, Ananias Tomboulides and Vladimir Tomov, 2021, "Efficient exascale discretizations: High-order finite element methods", International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 35, (6), pp. 527-552

Adam Kraus, Elia Merzari, Thomas Norddine, Oana Marin and Sofiane Benhamadouche, 2021, "Large Eddy Simulation of a 5 × 5 rod bundle: Impacts of a central control rod thimble tube", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 381

Adam Kraus, Elia Merzari, Thomas Norddine, Oana Marin and Sofiane Benhamadouche, 2021, "Direct numerical simulation of fluid flow in a 5x5 square rod bundle", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 90

Jun Fang, Dillon R. Shaver, Ananias Tomboulides, Misun Min, Paul E Fischer, Yu Hsiang Lan, Ronald Rahaman, Paul Romano, Sofiane Benhamadouche, Yassin A. Hassan, Adam Kraus and Elia Merzari, 2021, "Feasibility of full-core pin resolved CFD simulations of small modular reactor with momentum sources", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 378

Tri Nguyen and Elia Merzari, 2021, "On the Impact of Aspect Ratio and Other Geometric Effects on the Stability of Rectangular Thermosiphons", Journal of Heat Transfer, 143, (7)

Elia Merzari, Fan-Bill B Cheung, Steven Bajorek and Yassin Hassan, 2021, "40th Anniversary of the first international topical meeting on nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics: Highlights of thermal-hydraulics research in the past four decades", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 373

Paul K. Romano, Steven P. Hamilton, Ronald O. Rahaman, April Novak, Elia Merzari, Sterling M. Harper, Patrick C. Shriwise and Thomas M. Evans, 2021, "A Code-Agnostic Driver Application for Coupled Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulic Simulations", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 195, (4), pp. 391-411

Jun Fang, Yiqi Yu, Haomin Yuan, Elia Merzari and Dillon R. Shaver, 2021, "CFD Evaluation of Pressure Change Along Coolant Passages in Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor with Nek5000", Nuclear Technology

Elia Merzari, Haomin Yuan, Misun Min, Dillon Shaver, Ronald Rahaman, Patrick Shriwise, Paul Romano, Alberto Talamo, Yu Hsiang Lan, Derek Gaston, Richard Martineau, Paul Fischer and Yassin Hassan, 2021, "Cardinal: A Lower-Length-Scale Multiphysics Simulator for Pebble-Bed Reactors", Nuclear Technology, 207, (7), pp. 1118-1141

R. Martineau, D. Andrs, R. Carlsen, D. Gaston, J. Hansel, F. Kong, A. Lindsay, C. Permann, A. Slaughter, Elia Merzari, Rui Hu, A. Novak and R. Slaybaugh, 2020, "Multiphysics for nuclear energy applications using a cohesive computational framework", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 367

Elia Merzari, Aleksandr Obabko, Paul E Fischer and Manuele Aufiero, 2020, "Wall resolved large eddy simulation of reactor core flows with the spectral element method", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 364

Jinyong Feng, Michael Acton, Emilio Baglietto, Adam R. Kraus and Elia Merzari, 2020, "On the relevance of turbulent structures resolution for cross-flow in a helical-coil tube bundle", Annals of Nuclear Energy, 140

Jonathan K. Lai, Elia Merzari, Yassin A. Hassan, Paul E Fischer and Oana Marin, 2020, "Verification and validation of large eddy simulation with Nek5000 for cold leg mixing benchmark", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 358

Dillon R. Shaver, Nate Salpeter, Ananias Tomboulides, Prasad Vegendla, Adrian Tentner, W. David Pointer and Elia Merzari, 2020, "Simulation of Boiling Two-Phase Flow in a Helical Coil Steam Generator Using the Spectral Element Code Nek-2P", Nuclear Technology, 206, (2), pp. 375-387

Haomin Yuan, Mustafa A. Yildiz, Elia Merzari, Yiqi Yu, Aleksandr Obabko, Gerrit Botha, Giacomo Busco, Yassin A. Hassan and Duy Thien Nguyen, 2020, "Spectral element applications in complex nuclear reactor geometries: Tet-to-hex meshing", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 357

Mustafa Alper Yildiz, Haomin Yuan, Elia Merzari and Yassin Hassan, 2020, "Numerical Simulation of Isothermal Flow Across Slant Five-Tube Bundle with Spectral Element Method Code Nek5000", Nuclear Technology, 206, (2), pp. 296-306

Javier Martínez, Elia Merzari, Michael Acton and Emilio Baglietto, 2020, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flow Inside a Differentially Heated Composite Cavity", Nuclear Technology, 206, (2), pp. 266-282

Elia Merzari, Paul E Fischer, Misun Min, Stefan Kerkemeier, Aleksandr Obabko, Dillon Shaver, Haomin Yuan, Yiqi Yu, Javier Martinez, Landon Brockmeyer, Lambert Fick, Giacomo Busco, Alper Yildiz and Yassin Hassan, 2020, "Toward Exascale: Overview of Large Eddy Simulations and Direct Numerical Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Flows with the Spectral Element Method in Nek5000", Nuclear Technology

Landon Brockmeyer, Elia Merzari, Jerome Solberg and Yassin Hassan, 2020, "One-way coupled simulation of FIV in a 7-pin wire-wrapped fuel pin bundle", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 356

Landon Brockmeyer, Elia Merzari, Jerome Solberg, Kostas Karazis and Yassin Hassan, 2019, "High fidelity simulation and validation of crossflow through a tube bundle and the onset of vibration", International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 117

Mustafa Alper Yildiz, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2019, "Spectral and modal analysis of the flow in a helical coil steam generator experiment with large eddy simulation", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 80

Jonathan K. Lai, Giacomo Busco, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2019, "Direct Numerical Simulation of the Flow in a Bare Rod Bundle at Different Prandtl Numbers", Journal of Heat Transfer, 141, (12)

Ferry Roelofs, Heleen Uitslag-Doolaard, Daniele Dovizio, Blaz Mikuz, Afaque Shams, Fulvio Bertocchi, Martin Rohde, Julio Pacio, Ivan Di Piazza, Graham Kennedy, Katrien Van Tichelen, Aleks Obabko and Elia Merzari, 2019, "Towards validated prediction with RANS CFD of flow and heat transport in a wire-wrap fuel assembly", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 353

Javier Martínez, Yu Hsiang Lan, Elia Merzari and M. Min, 2019, "On the use of LES-based turbulent thermal-stress models for rod bundle simulations", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 142

Dillon R. Shaver, Lane B. Carasik, Elia Merzari, Nate Salpeter and Edward Blandford, 2019, "Calculation of Friction Factors and Nusselt Numbers for Twisted Elliptical Tube Heat Exchangers Using Nek5000", Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 141, (7)

Giacomo Busco, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2019, "Invariant analysis of the Reynolds stress tensor for a nuclear fuel assembly with spacer grid and split type vanes", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 77, pp. 144-156

Jonathan K. Lai, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2019, "Sensitivity analyses in a buoyancy-driven closed system with high resolution CFD using Boussinesq approximation and variable density models", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 75, pp. 1-13

Elia Merzari, H. Yuan, A. Kraus, A. Obabko, P. Fischer, J. Solberg, S. Lee, J. Lai, M. Delgado and Y. Hassan, 2019, "High-Fidelity Simulation of Flow-Induced Vibrations in Helical Steam Generators for Small Modular Reactors", Nuclear Technology, 205, (1-2), pp. 33-47

N. Goth, Philip A Jones, D. T. Nguyen, R. Vaghetto, Y. A. Hassan, A. Obabko, Elia Merzari and P. F. Fischer, 2018, "Comparison of experimental and simulation results on interior subchannels of a 61-pin wire-wrapped hexagonal fuel bundle", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 338, pp. 130-136

A. Tomboulides, S. M. Aithal, P. F. Fischer, Elia Merzari, A. V. Obabko and D. R. Shaver, 2018, "A novel numerical treatment of the near-wall regions in the k-? class of RANS models", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 72, pp. 186-199

Nolan Goth, Philip A Jones, Thien Duy Nguyen, Rodolfo Vaghetto, Yassin Hassan, Nathaniel Salpeter and Elia Merzari, 2018, "PTV/PIV measurements of turbulent flows in interior subchannels of a 61-pin wire-wrapped hexagonal fuel bundle", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 71, pp. 295-304

Jonathan K. Lai, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2018, "Large eddy simulation of the flow behavior in a simplified helical coil steam generator", Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 141, (2)

Lorenz Hufnagel, Jacopo Canton, Ramis Örlü, Oana Marin, Elia Merzari and Philipp Schlatter, 2018, "The three-dimensional structure of swirl-switching in bent pipe flow", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 835, pp. 86-101

S. Lomperski, A. Obabko, Elia Merzari, Paul E Fischer and W. D. Pointer, 2017, "Jet stability and wall impingement flow field in a thermal striping experiment", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 115, pp. 1125-1136

Haomin Yuan, Jerome Solberg, Elia Merzari, Adam Kraus and Iulian Grindeanu, 2017, "Flow-induced vibration analysis of a helical coil steam generator experiment using large eddy simulation", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 322, pp. 547-562

Landon Brockmeyer, Lane B. Carasik, Elia Merzari and Yassin Hassan, 2017, "Numerical simulations for determination of minimum representative bundle size in wire wrapped tube bundles", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 322, pp. 577-590

Vakhtang Makarashvili, Elia Merzari, Aleksandr Obabko, Andrew Siegel and Paul E Fischer, 2017, "A performance analysis of ensemble averaging for high fidelity turbulence simulations at the strong scaling limit", Computer Physics Communications, 219, pp. 236-245

Lambert H. Fick, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2017, "Direct numerical simulation of pebble bed flows: Database development and investigation of low-frequency temporal instabilities", Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 139, (5)

Y. Q. Yu, Elia Merzari, J. W. Thomas, A. Obabko and S. M. Aithal, 2017, "Steady and unsteady calculations on thermal striping phenomena in triple-parallel jet", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 312, pp. 429-437

Elia Merzari, Aleks Obabko, Paul E Fischer, Noah Halford, Justin Walker, Andrew Siegel and Yiqi Yu, 2017, "Large-scale large eddy simulation of nuclear reactor flows: Issues and perspectives", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 312, pp. 86-98

Adam Kraus, Elia Merzari, Tanju Sofu, Zhaopeng Zhong and Yousry Gohar, 2016, "CFD analysis and design of detailed target configurations for an accelerator-driven subcritical system", Nuclear Technology, 195, (2), pp. 157-168

Elia Merzari, Paul E Fischer, H. Yuan, K. Van Tichelen, S. Keijers, J. De Ridder, J. Degroote, J. Vierendeels, H. Doolaard, V. R. Gopala and F. Roelofs, 2016, "Benchmark exercise for fluid flow simulations in a liquid metal fast reactor fuel assembly", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 298, pp. 218-228

Yiqi Yu, Elia Merzari, Aleksandr Obabko and Justin Thomas, 2015, "A porous medium model for predicting the duct wall temperature of sodium fast reactor fuel assembly", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 295, pp. 48-58

Justin Walker, Elia Merzari, Aleksandr Obabko, Paul Fischer and Andrew Siegel, 2014, "Accurate prediction of the wall shear stress in rod bundles with the spectral element method at high Reynolds numbers", International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 50, pp. 287-299

Vijay S. Mahadevan, Elia Merzari, Timothy Tautges, Rajeev Jain, Aleksandr Obabko, Michael Smith and Paul Fischer, 2014, "High-resolution coupled physics solvers for analysing fine-scale nuclear reactor design problems", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 372, (2021)

M. Pellegrini, H. Endo, Elia Merzari and H. Ninokata, 2013, "Algebraic turbulent heat flux model for prediction of thermal stratification in piping systems", Nuclear Technology, 181, (1), pp. 144-156

Elia Merzari, W. D. Pointer, J. G. Smith, A. Tentner and P. Fischer, 2012, "Numerical simulation of the flow in wire-wrapped pin bundles: Effect of pin-wire contact modeling", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 253, pp. 374-386

Elia Merzari and H. Ninokata, 2011, "Proper orthogonal decomposition of the flow in a tight lattice rod-bundle", 241, (11), pp. 4621-4632

Elia Merzari, H. Ninokata, R. Mereu, E. Colombo and F. Inzoli, 2011, "Urans simulation of confined parallel jet mixing", Nuclear Technology, 175, (3), pp. 538-552

Elia Merzari, H. Ninokata, A. Mahmood and M. Rohde, 2009, "Proper orthogonal decomposition of the flow in geometries containing a narrow gap", Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 23, (5), pp. 333-351

Sheng Wang, Hisashi Ninokata, Elia Merzari, Kangbin Lei, Xilian Luo, Luyi Lu and Kiwamu Kase, 2009, "Numerical study of a single blade row in turbomolecular pump", Vacuum, 83, (8), pp. 1106-1117

H. Ninokata, Elia Merzari and A. Khakim, 2009, "Analysis of low Reynolds number turbulent flow phenomena in nuclear fuel pin subassemblies of tight lattice configuration", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 239, (5), pp. 855-866

Elia Merzari and Hisashi Ninokata, 2009, "Anisotropic turbulence and coherent structures in eccentric annular channels", Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 82, (1), pp. 93-120

Elia Merzari, Hisashi Ninokata, Sheng Wang and Emilio Baglietto, 2009, "Numerical simulation of free-surface vortices", Nuclear Technology, 165, (3), pp. 313-320

Elia Merzari, A. Khakim, H. Ninokata and E. Baglietto, 2009, "Toward an accurate approach for the prediction of the flow in a T-junction: URANS", 41, (9), pp. 1191-1204

Elia Merzari and Hisashi Ninokata, 2009, "Development of an LES methodology for complex geometries", 41, (7), pp. 893-906

Elia Merzari, Sheng Wang, Hisashi Ninokata and Vassilis Theofilis, 2008, "Biglobal linear stability analysis for the flow in eccentric annular channels and a related geometry", Physics of Fluids, 20, (11)

Elia Merzari, H. Ninokata and E. Baglietto, 2008, "Numerical simulation of flows in tight-lattice fuel bundles", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 238, (7), pp. 1703-1719

Conference Proceedings

Elia Merzari, Steven Hamilton, Thomas Evans, Misun Min, Paul E Fischer, Stefan Kerkemeier, Jun Fang, Paul Romano, Yu Hsiang Lan, Malachi Phillips, Elliott Biondo, Katherine Royston, Tim Warburton, Noel Chalmers and Thilina Rathnayake, 2023, "Exascale Multiphysics Nuclear Reactor Simulations for Advanced Designs"

Scott Atchley, Christopher Zimmer, John Lange, David Bernholdt, Veronica Melesse Vergara, Thomas Beck, Michael Brim, Reuben Budiardja, Sunita Chandrasekaran, Markus Eisenbach, Thomas Evans, Matthew Ezell, Nicholas Frontiere, Antigoni Georgiadou, Joe Glenski, Philipp Grete, Steven Hamilton, John Holmen, Axel Huebl, Daniel Jacobson, Wayne Joubert, Kim McMahon, Elia Merzari, Stan Moore, Andrew Myers, Stephen Nichols, Sarp Oral, Thomas Papatheodore, Danny Perez, David M. Rogers, Evan Schneider, Jean Luc Vay and P. K. Yeung, 2023, "Frontier: Exploring Exascale the System Architecture of the First Exascale Supercomputer"

Haomin Yuan, Dillon Shaver, Dezhi Dai, Tri Nyugen, Elia Merzari, Brian Jackson, Nate Salpeter, Ka Yen Yau and Giacomo Busco, 2023, "An Explicit Numerical Study of Flow through Bypass Gaps and Channel in a Pebble Bed Core", 129, pp. 1186-1189

Victor Coppo Leite, David Reger, Aaron Huxford, Annalisa Manera and Elia Merzari, 2023, "Coupled Simulation of Mixing in Loop Systems Using An Hybrid Multiscale Domain Coupling Between the Navier-Stokes Module and SAM", 128, pp. 938-941

Sinan Okyay, Elia Merzari, David Alan Reger, Guillaume Giudicelli, Victor Coppo Leite and Alexander Lindsay, 2023, "DEVELOPMENT OF A HI-STORM OVERPACK AND MPC-32 THERMAL-HYDRAULIC MODEL WITH THE MOOSE FRAMEWORK", 2023-May

Tri Nguyen, John Barton, Casey Emler and Elia Merzari, 2023, "Direct Numerical Simulation of a molten salt natural circulation loop using the Spectral Element Method", 129, pp. 1120-1123

D. Reger and Elia Merzari, 2023, "Direct numerical simulation of pebble beds: Analysis of the turbulent heat flux"

Luiz C. Aldeia Machado, Elia Merzari and William Walters, 2023, "NEUTRONICS AND THERMAL-HYDRAULICS ANALYSIS OF RIA TRANSIENTS FOR HIGH-BURNUP FUELS", 2023-May

Luiz C. Aldeia Machado, Carolina S.B. Dutra, Sean P. Bistany and Elia Merzari, 2023, "PARAMETRIC STUDY ON LAMINAR-TURBULENT TRANSITION IN SQUARE ROD BUNDLES", 2023-May

Miwako Tsuji, Misun Min, Stefan Kerkemeier, Paul Fischer, Elia Merzari and Mitsuhisa Sato, 2022, "Performance tuning of the Helmholtz matrix-vector product kernel in the computational fluid dynamics solver Nek5000/RS for the A64FX processor", pp. 49-59

Tri Nguyen, Elia Merzari, Haomin Yuan, Dezhi Dai and Brian Jackson, 2022, "LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF RANDOM PEBBLE BED USING THE SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD"

Misun Min, Yu Hsiang Lan, Paul E Fischer, Elia Merzari, Stefan Kerkemeier, Malachi Phillips, Thilina Rathnayake, April Novak, Derek Gaston, Noel Chalmers and Tim Warburton, 2022, "Optimization of Full-Core Reactor Simulations on Summit", 2022-November

Victor Coppo Leite and Elia Merzari, 2021, "A new rans correction to account for varying viscosity effects", 1

David Reger, Elia Merzari, Paolo Balestra, Sebastian Schunert and Yassin A. Hassan, 2021, "Comparison of pebble bed velocity profiles between high-fidelity and intermediate-fidelity codes", 4

Carolina S.B. Dutra and Elia Merzari, 2021, "Study on laminar turbulent transition in square arrayed rod bundles", 4

Daniele Dovizio, Akshat Mathur, Giacomo Busco, Adam Kraus, Elia Merzari and Ed Komen, 2020, "DESIGN OF A DNS FOR A SIMPLIFIED PTS CASE WITH BUOYANCY EFFECTS", Proceedings of CFD4NRS-8

Adam Kraus, Elia Merzari, Thomas Noordiane and Sofiane Benchamadouche, 2020, "Invariant Analysis of Flow in a 5x5 Rod Bundle With a Central Thimble Tube"

Adam Kraus, Elia Merzari, Thomas Noordine, Oana Marin and Sofiane Benhamadouche, 2020, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow in a 5x5 Square Rod Bundle Using Nek5000"

Tri Nguyen and Elia Merzari, 2020, "COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF A SINGLE-PHASE RECTANGULAR THERMOSIPHON", Proceedings of ICONE 2020

Victor Coppo Leite and Elia Merzari, 2020, "The effect of varying viscosity in turbulent channel flow", Proceedings of FEDSM2020

N. Offermans, A. Peplinski, O. Marin, Elia Merzari and P. Schlatter, 2020, "Performance of preconditioners for large-scale simulations using nek5000", 134, pp. 263-272

Haomin Yuan, Elia Merzari, Yiqi Yu, Aleksandr Obabko, Mustafa A. Yildiz, Gerrit Botha and Yassin A. Hassan, 2019, "Applying tet-to-hex meshing method to complex nuclear reactor geometries for spectral element code", pp. 127-135

S. Lomperski, A. Obabko and Elia Merzari, 2019, "Buoyancy-driven transformations in a thermal striping flow field", pp. 3856-3864

F. Roelofs, H. Uitslag-Doolaard, B. Mikuz, D. Dovizio, D. de Santis, A. Shams, F. Bertocchi, M. Rohde, K. van Tichelen, S. Keijers, G. Kennedy, A. Batta, J. Pacio, P. Planquart, A. Obabko, L. Brockmeyer, Elia Merzari, R. Vaghetto, Y. Hassan, D. Leonard, M. Martin, B. Jackson, M. Steer, M. Delchini and D. Pointer, 2019, "CFD and experiments for wire-wrapped fuel assemblies", pp. 5716-5729

Prasad Vegendla, Adrian Tentner, Dillon Shaver, Aleks Obabko and Elia Merzari, 2019, "Development and validation of a conjugate heat transfer model for the two-phase CFD code NEK-2P", pp. 2666-2685

Jinyong Feng, Michael Acton, Emilio Baglietto, Adam R. Kraus and Elia Merzari, 2019, "Evaluation of turbulence modeling approaches for the prediction of cross-flow in a helical tube bundle", pp. 136-148

Yiqi Yu, Emily R. Shemon, Taek K. Kim and Elia Merzari, 2019, "Hot channel factor evaluation for sodium-cooled fast reactors with multi-physics sharp toolkit", pp. 6096-6109

R. Martineau, D. Andrs, R. Carlsen, D. Gaston, J. Hansel, F. Kong, A. Lindsay, C. Permann, A. Slaughter, Elia Merzari, Rui Hu, A. Novak and R. Slaybaugh, 2019, "Multiphysics for nuclear energy applications using a cohesive computational framework", pp. 3092-3106

S. Bhushan, M. Elmellouki, W. D. Jock, D. K. Walters, J. K. Lai, Y. A. Hassan, A. Obabko and Elia Merzari, 2019, "Numerical investigation of flow and heat transfer characteristics for attached and separated low-PR flows", 2

H. Dolfen, J. de Ridder, L. Brockmeyer, Elia Merzari, G. Kennedy, K. van Tichelen and J. Degroote, 2019, "Numerical simulations of the turbulence-induced vibrations of a wire-wrapped hexagonal fuel assembly", pp. 5092-5102

Javier Martínez and Elia Merzari, 2019, "On the use of small-scale LES for full-length heated fuel rod simulations", pp. 4755-4768

Adam Kraus, Yan Cao, Elia Merzari and Yousry Gohar, 2019, "Thermal hydraulic design of an accelerator driven subcritical system for burning minor actinides", pp. 220-233

Elia Merzari, 2019, "Toward exascale: Large eddy simulation and direct numerical simulation of nuclear reactor flows with the spectral element method", pp. 2064-2080

Jonathan K. Lai, Elia Merzari, Yassin A. Hassan and Aleksandr Obabko, 2019, "Validation and development of DNS database for low Prandtl numbers in rod bundle", 2

Aleksandr Obabko, Elia Merzari, Landon Brockmeyer, Paul Fischer, Tanju Sofu, Brian Jackson, Michael Steer, Rodolfo Vaghetto and Yassin A. Hassan, 2019, "Validation of NEK5000 for 37- And 61-pin wire-wrap geometries with conjugate heat transfer", pp. 2036-2049

Adrian Tentner, Prasad Vegendla, Ananias Tomboulides, Aleks Obabko, Elia Merzari and Dillon Shaver, 2018, "Advances in modeling critical heat flux in LWR boiling flows with the NEK-2P CFD code", 8

Landon Brockmeyer, Aleksandr Obabko, Elia Merzari and Yassin Hassan, 2018, "Analysis of pressure field on wire-wrapped pin bundle surface for concerns of FSI", 1

S. Bhushan, O. ElFajri, W. D. Jock, D. K. Walters, Jinping Lai, Y. A. Hassan, R. Brian Jackson, A. Obabko and Elia Merzari, 2018, "Assessment of RANS, LES, and hybrid RANS/LES models for the prediction of low-PR turbulent flows", 1

Dillon R. Shaver, Lane B. Carasik, Elia Merzari, Nate Salpeter and Edward Blandford, 2018, "Calculation of friction factors and nusselt numbers for twisted elliptical tube heat exchangers using nek5000", 2

Yiqi Yu, Elia Merzari and Jerome Solberg, 2018, "Coupled calculation on fluid structure interaction in plate-type fuel element", 8

Javier Martínez, Elia Merzari, Michael Acton and Emilio Baglietto, 2018, "Direct numerical simulation of the turbulent flow inside a differentially heated cavity", pp. 644-658

Adam R. Kraus, Haomin Yuan and Elia Merzari, 2018, "Evaluation of turbulence modeling approaches for cross-flow in a helical tube bundle", 8

Richard Martineau, David Andrs, Joshua Hansel, Cody Permann, Derek Gaston, Steve Novascone, Matthew Bernard, Russel Johns, Rui Hu, Elia Merzari, James Wolf, Hongbin Zhang and Ronaldo Szilard, 2018, "Extending the capability of nuclear plant systems analysis with advanced tightly-coupled nuclear fuels performance", 2018-May, pp. 1337-1339

Richard Martineau, David Andrs, Joshua Hansel, Cody Permann, Derek Gaston, Steve Novascone, Matthew Bernard, Russel Johns, Rui Hu, Elia Merzari, James Wolf, Hongbin Zhang and Ronaldo Szilard, 2018, "Extending the capability of nuclear plant systems analysis with advanced tightly-coupled nuclear fuels performance", 118, pp. 1337-1339

Jonathan K. Lai, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2018, "Flow development with LES for cold leg mixing benchmark", 2018-May, pp. 1241-1244

Jonathan K. Lai, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2018, "Flow development with LES for cold leg mixing benchmark", 118, pp. 1241-1244

Mustafa Alper Yildiz, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2018, "Large eddy simulation of 5-tube bundle helical coil steam generator test section", 8

Haomin Yuan, Vakhtang Makarashvili, Elia Merzari, Aleksandr Obabko and Yiqi Yu, 2018, "Large eddy simulations of a coolant flow in spacer grid fuel assemblies with a spectral element solver", 8

Mustafa Alper Yildiz, Yassin Hassan, Haomin Yuan and Elia Merzari, 2018, "Numerical simulation of isothermal flow across slant five-tube bundle with spectral element method code NEK5000", pp. 659-669

Elia Merzari, Ronald Rahaman, Paul E Fischer and Misun Min, 2018, "Performance analysis of nek5000 for single-assembly calculations", 2

D. R. Shaver, A. Tomboulides, A. Tentner, P. Vegendla, Elia Merzari, N. Salpeter and W. D. Pointer, 2018, "Simulation of boiling two-phase flow in a helical coil steam generator using the spectral element code NEK-2P", pp. 263-276

Gerrit Botha, Richard C. Kurwitz, Yassin A. Hassan and Elia Merzari, 2018, "The influence of pebble placement on the wake of tandem pebbles in a free stream", 9

Jonathan K. Lai, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2018, "Towards low Prandtl number investigations with direct numerical simulation in fuel bundles", 2018-May, pp. 1231-1233

Jonathan K. Lai, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2018, "Towards low Prandtl number investigations with direct numerical simulation in fuel bundles", 118, pp. 1231-1233

Hee Cheon No and Elia Merzari, 2017, "Special issue on the 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics", 312, pp. 1

Philipp Schlatter, Lorenz Hufnagel, Jacopo Canton, Elia Merzari, Oana Marin and Ramis Orlu, 2017, "Swirl Switching in bent pipes studied by numerical simulation", 2

Philipp Schlatter, Azad Noorani, Jacopo Canton, Lorenz Hufnagel, Ramis Örlü, Oana Marin and Elia Merzari, 2017, "Transitional and turbulent bent pipes", 196, pp. 81-87

Dillon R. Shaver, Ananias Tomboulides, Aleksandr Obabko, Adrian Tentner, Prasad Vegendla and Elia Merzari, 2017, "Verification of the two-fluid model in the spectral element code Nek-2P for adiabatic flow conditions", 116, pp. 1251-1254

Dillon R. Shaver, Ananias Tomboulides, Aleksandr Obabko, Adrian Tentner, Prasad Vegendla and Elia Merzari, 2017, "Verification of the two-fluid model in the spectral element code Nek-2P for non-adiabatic flow conditions", 117, pp. 1645-1648

N. Goth, Philip A Jones, D. T. Nguyen, R. Vaghetto, Y. A. Hassan, A. Obabko, Elia Merzari and Paul F. Fischer, 2017, "Comparison of experimental and simulation results on interior subchannel of a 61-pin wire-wrapped hexagonal fuel bundle", 2017-September

Oana Marin, Elia Merzari, Aleks Obabko, Andres Alvarez, Stephen Lomperski and Paul E Fischer, 2017, "Geometry effects on thermal striping in nuclear reactors: POD analysis of large-eddy simulations and experiments", 1B-2017

Elia Merzari, H. Yuan, A. Kraus, A. Obabko, Paul E Fischer, J. Solberg, Saya Lee, Jinping Lai, S. H. Lee, M. Delgado and Y. Hassan, 2017, "High-fidelity simulation of flow-induced vibrations in helical steam generators for small modular reactors", 2017-September

Lambert H. Fick, Elia Merzari, Oana Marin and Yassin A. Hassan, 2017, "Investigation of the dynamics of incompressible flow in domains of multiple close-packed spheres", 1B-2017

Jonathan K. Lai, Elia Merzari, Marilyn Delgado, Samuel J. Lee, Saya Lee and Yassin A. Hassan, 2017, "Large eddy simulation of a helical coil steam generator test section", 1B-2017

Adrian Tentner, Prasad Vegendla, Ananias Tomboulides, Aleks Obabko, Elia Merzari and Dillon Shaver, 2017, "Modeling of two-phase boiling flow and critical heat flux with the NEK-2P CFD code", 8

L. H. Fick, Y. A. Hassan and Elia Merzari, 2017, "Numerical simulation of pebble bed flows using high-fidelity methods", 2017-September

L. B. Carasik, Elia Merzari and Y. A. Hassan, 2017, "Numerical simulation of twin jets using LES with the Nek5000 code", 116, pp. 1471-1474

Oana Marin, Elia Merzari, Philipp Schlatter and Andrew Siegel, 2017, "Proper orthogonal decomposition on compressed data", 1

Landon Brockmeyer, Jerome Solberg, Elia Merzari and Yassin Hassan, 2017, "Simulation of fluid-structure interaction of crossflow through a tube bundle and experimental validation", 1B-2017

Elia Merzari, Jerome Solberg, Paul E Fischer and Robert M. Ferencz, 2016, "A high-fidelity approach for the simulation of flow-induced vibration", 1A-2016

Vakhtang Makarashvili, Elia Merzari, Aleksandr Obabko, Paul E Fischer and Andrew Siegel, 2016, "Accelerating the high-fidelity simulation of turbulence: Ensemble averaging", 1B-2016

Lambert H. Fick, Elia Merzari and Yassin A. Hassan, 2016, "Calculation of turbulent kinetic energy budgets for flow through a pebble bed using DNS", 5

Landon Brockmeyer, Lane Carasik, Elia Merzari and Yassin Hassan, 2016, "CFD investigation of wire-wrapped fuel rod bundle inner subchannel behavior and dependency on bundle size", 5

Haomin Yuan, Elia Merzari and Yiqi Yu, 2016, "DNS study of supercritical CO2 flow using spectral element code Nek5000", 115, pp. 1661-1664

Jinping Lai, Elia Merzari, Saya Lee, M. Delgado, Saya Lee and Y. A. Hassan, 2016, "Large eddy simulations for a helical coil steam generator", 115, pp. 1665-1667

Aleksandr V. Obabko, Elia Merzari and Paul F. Fischer, 2016, "Nek5000 large-eddy simulations for thermal-hydraulics of deformed wire-wrap fuel assemblies", 115, pp. 1491-1494

Michael A. Sprague, Stanislav Boldyrev, Choong Seock Chang, Paul E Fischer, Ray Grout, William I. Gustafson, Jeffrey A.F. Hittinger, Elia Merzari and Robert Moser, 2016, "Outcomes from the DOE workshop on turbulent flow simulation at the exascale"

Dillon R. Shaver, Prasad Vegendla, W. David Pointer, Adrian M. Tentner and Elia Merzari, 2016, "Simulation of boiling flow in a helical coil using a homogeneous equilibrium model with the Nek-2P CFD code", 115, pp. 1771-1774

Adam Kraus, Haomin Yuan and Elia Merzari, 2016, "Simulations of a helical tube bundle in cross-flow for application to flow-induced vibration", 115, pp. 1668-1671

John Mulloy, Elia Merzari, Oana Marin and Yassin Hassan, 2016, "Toward linear stability analysis of upper plenum flows", 115, pp. 1435-1438

L. Brockmeyer, L. Carasik, Elia Merzari and Y. Hassan, 2016, "Wire-wrapped fuel pin effect of bundle size on temperature distribution for uniform heat flux", 114, (1), pp. 888-890

G. Damiani, D. Rosa, A. Shams, E. M.J. Komen, Elia Merzari, A. Obabko and Paul E Fischer, 2015, "Calibration and optimization of pressurized thermal shock for benchmarking direct numerical simulation", 5, pp. 4153-4166

H. J. Doolaard, A. Shams, F. Roelofs, K. Van Tichelen, S. Keijers, J. De Ridder, J. Degroote, J. Vierendeels, I. Di Piazza, R. Marinari, Elia Merzari, A. Obabko and Paul E Fischer, 2015, "CFD benchmark for a heavy liquid metal fuel assembly", 3, pp. 2196-2208

L. M. Brockmeyer, F. S. Sarikurt, Y. A. Hassan and Elia Merzari, 2015, "CFD investigation of wire-wrapped fuel rod bundles and flow sensitivity to bundle size", 8, pp. 6678-6691

Lambert Fick, Elia Merzari and Yassin Hassan, 2015, "Direct numerical simulation of the flow through a structured pebble bed near a wall boundary", 1

Haomin Yuan and Elia Merzari, 2015, "Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with heat transfer for low Prandtl and high Reynolds and comparison with Algebraic heat flux model", 1

L. H. Fick, Elia Merzari and Y. A. Hassan, 2015, "Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow in the near wall region of a pebble bed", 112, pp. 947-950

A. Kraus, S. Aithal, A. Obabko, Elia Merzari, A. Tomboulides and Paul E Fischer, 2015, "Erosion of a large-scale gaseous stratified layer by a turbulent jet - Simulations with URANS and LES approaches", 2, pp. 1448-1461

Elia Merzari, Aleks Obabko, Paul E Fischer, Noah Halford, Justin Walker, Andrew Siegel and Yiqi Yu, 2015, "Large-scale simulation of nuclear reactors: Issues and perspectives", 1, pp. 280-297

Elia Merzari, Paul E Fischer and Justin Walker, 2015, "Large-scale simulation of rod bundles: Coherent structure recognition and stability analysis", 1

Adrian Tentner, Prasad Vegendla, Aleks Obabko, Ananias Tomboulides, Paul E Fischer, Oana Marin and Elia Merzari, 2015, "Modeling of two-phase flow in a BWR fuel assembly with a highly-scalable CFD code", 3, pp. 1966-1979

Y. Q. Yu, Elia Merzari, J. W. Thomas and A. Obabko, 2015, "Steady and unsteady calculations on thermal striping phenomena in triple-parallel jet", 2, pp. 1435-1447

Aleksandr Obabko, Paul E Fischer, Oana Marin, Elia Merzari and Dave Pointer, 2015, "Verification and validation of nek 5000 for T-junction, matis, SIBERIA, and max experiments", 2, pp. 1462-1473

Y. Cao, Y. Gohar, Elia Merzari and A. R. Kraus, 2015, "Conceptual designs of accelerator-drive subcritical system for burning minor actinides", pp. 223-228

Zhaopeng Zhong, Yousry Gohar, Elia Merzari, Adam Kraus and Tanju Sofu, 2015, "Target design optimization of kipt neutron source facility", pp. 278-285

A. Tomboulides, S. M. Aithal, P. F. Fischer, Elia Merzari and A. Obabko, 2014, "A novel variant of the K- ? Urans model for spectral element methods - implementation, verification and validation in NEK5000", 1D

Adrian Tentner, Elia Merzari and Prasad Vegendla, 2014, "Computational fluid dynamics modeling of two-phase boiling flow and critical heat flux", 4

Yan Cao, Yousry Gohar, Elia Merzari and Adam R. Kraus, 2014, "Conceptual design of an accelerator-driven subcritical system to dispose the minor actinide fuels", 111, pp. 1320-1322

P. Ward, Y. Hassan, Elia Merzari and P. Fischer, 2014, "Direct numerical simulation and linear stability analysis of the flow in a pebble bed", 1C

S. Bhushan, D. K. Walters, Elia Merzari and A. Obabko, 2014, "Implementation and validation of a hybrid RANS/LES model in the spectral element solver NEK5000", 1A

Yiqi Yu, Elia Merzari and J. Thomas, 2014, "SFR duct wall temperature prediction with a porous medium model", 111, pp. 1651-1653

Adam Kraus, Elia Merzari, Yan Cao and Yousry Gohar, 2014, "Thermal-hydraulic core design concept of an accelerator-driven minor actinide burner", 111, pp. 1437-1439

Adam R. Kraus, Elia Merzari and Paul F. Fischer, 2014, "Turbulent flow-field comparisons of RANS and les for a twisted pin lattice geometry at low Reynolds number", 1A

Elia Merzari and Paul Fischer, 2013, "Controlling turbulence in tight rod bundles", 1 B

V. Mahadevan, Elia Merzari, R. Jain, A. Obabko, M. Smith, T. Tautges, P. Fischer, W. D. Pointer and R. Ferencz, 2013, "Sharp fuel assembly coupled simulation demonstrations", 109, (PART 1), pp. 774-778

A. Dave, R. Hu, A. Manera, Elia Merzari and W. D. Pointer, 2012, "CFD simulations of NSTF", 107, pp. 1323-1326

Elia Merzari, Paul Fischer, W. David Pointer, Marco Pellegrini and Hisashi Ninokata, 2012, "On the interaction of boundary layer and mixing layer in stratified pipe flow", 1, (PARTS A AND B), pp. 767-773

Elia Merzari, Paul Fischer and W. David Pointer, 2012, "Optimal disturbances in three-dimensional natural convection flows", 1, (PARTS A AND B), pp. 921-928

S. Lomperski, Elia Merzari, A. Obabko, W. D. Pointer and P. Fischer, 2012, "The MAX facility for CFD code validation", 3, pp. 1873-1879

Elia Merzari and Yousry Gohar, 2012, "Numerical simulation of a completely passive spent fuel pool: Lessons learned", 4, (1), pp. 553-561

Elia Merzari, W. David Pointer and Paul Fischer, 2011, "A POD-based solver for the advection-diffusion equation", 1, (PARTS A, B, C, D), pp. 1139-1147

Elia Merzari, Paul Fischer and Hisashi Ninokata, 2011, "Numerical simulation of the flow in a toroidal thermosiphon", 1, (PARTS A, B, C, D), pp. 1549-1560

Elia Merzari, Tanju Sofu, Zhaopeng Zhong and Yousry Gohar, 2011, "Safety analisys of the target design with electron accelerator", pp. 282-289

Elia Merzari, Z. Zhong and Y. Gohar, 2011, "Safety analysis of KIPT sub-critical assembly", 105, pp. 940-941

Elia Merzari, J. G. Smith and W. D. Pointer, 2010, "Hydrodynamic analysis of different spacing strategies for a tight-lattice SFR bundle", 103, pp. 860-861

Elia Merzari, W. D. Pointer, A. Obabko and P. Fischer, 2010, "On the numerical simulation of thermal striping in the upper plenum of a fast reactor", 1, pp. 595-603

Elia Merzari, W. D. Pointer and P. Fischer, 2010, "Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of the flow in a T-junction", 3, pp. 1714-1721

A. Khakim, Elia Merzari and H. Ninokata, 2009, "Feasibility study of the application of exotic pin for tight-lattice fuel assembly", 100, pp. 747

Elia Merzari and Hisashi Ninokata, 2009, "URANS simulation of parallel jets mixing in a rectangular confinement", 100, pp. 681-682

Rui Li, Elia Merzari and Hisashi Ninokata, 2009, "Numerical study on liquid droplet impingement erosion in BWRs", 101, pp. 863-864

Elia Merzari and Hisashi Ninokata, 2009, "Priori test of the flow in an annular channel with differential heating at the walls", 1, (PART A), pp. 743-751

Sheng Wang, Kangbin Lei, Xilian Luo, Kiwamu Kase, Elia Merzari and Hisashi Ninokata, 2009, "Simulation of eccentric-shaft journal microbearing by DSMC", 1, (PART C), pp. 2331-2340

Riccardo Mereu, Emanuela Colombo, Fabio Inzoli, Elia Merzari and Hisashi Ninokata, 2009, "Large eddy simulation of confined parallel jets", 101, pp. 940-941

Elia Merzari, Azizul Khakim and Hisashi Ninokata, 2009, "Large eddy simulation of the flow in tight-lattice rod bundles at low Reynolds number", 1, (PART C), pp. 2277-2284

Sheng Wang, Kangbin Lei, Xilian Luo, Kiwamu Kase, Elia Merzari and Hisashi Ninokata, 2009, "Cylindrical Couette flow of a rarefied gas from macro- to micro-scales", 2, pp. 469-475

Elia Merzari, 2009, "DNS simulation of buoyancy-driven flows for nuclear applications", 101, pp. 1141-1142

Elia Merzari, H. Ninokata and I. C. Bang, 2009, "Numerical simulation of the flow in a natural circulation loop with nanofluids and differential heating", 2, pp. 1546

Elia Merzari, H. Ninokata and E. Baglietto, 2009, "Large eddy simulation of the flow in A T-junction", 2, pp. 1538

Elia Merzari, H. Ninokata and E. Baglietto, 2008, "Detached eddy simulation and large eddy simulation models for the simulation of gas entrainment", 5, pp. 2669-2677

Elia Merzari and H. Ninokata, 2008, "Test of large eddy simulation sub-grid-scale models for flows in annular channels", 1, pp. 410-420

Hisashi Ninokata and Elia Merzari, 2007, "Computational fluid dynamics and simulation-based-design approach for tight lattice nuclear fuel pin subassemblies"

Elia Merzari and H. Ninokata, 2007, "Development of an les methodology for complex geometries"

Elia Merzari and H. Ninokata, 2007, "Toward a dynamical systems approach for the understanding of turbulent flow pulsations between subchannels"

Elia Merzari, H. Ninokata and E. Baglietto, 2007, "Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes simulation for an accurate prediction of the flow inside tight rod bundles"

Tsunayuki Okumura, Elia Merzari and Hisashi Ninokata, 2006, "Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flows in an eccentric annulus channel", 95, pp. 825-826

Other

Elia Merzari, Ferry Roelofs, Katrien Van Tichelen and Philippe Planquart, 2023, "Foreword", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 414

Elia Merzari, Ferry Roelofs, W. David Pointer and Chul Hwa Song, 2023, "Foreword: Selected papers from the 19th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-19)", Nuclear Technology, 209, (10), pp. iii

Elia Merzari, Ferry Roelofs, W. David Pointer and Chul Hwa Song, 2023, "Selected papers from the 19th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-19): Guest Editors", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 197, (10), pp. iii

Elia Merzari, Sama Bilbao y Leon, Sofiane Benhamadouche, John Luxat and Xu Cheng, 2020, "Foreword: Selected papers from the 2018 International Topical Meeting on Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2018)", Nuclear Technology, 206, (2), pp. iii-iv

John Luxat, Xu Cheng, Sofiane Benhamadouche, Sama Bilbao-y-Leon and Elia Merzari, 2018, "Foreword"

Fan Bill Cheung, Michio Murase, David Aumiller, Seungjin Kim, Simon Walker, Elia Merzari and Xiaojing Liu, 2016, "International Topical Meeting on Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2016, ATH 2016: Foreword", pp. xiii

Nam Dinh, Hee Cheon No, Xiaodong Sun, Sama Bilbao Leon, Elia Merzari and W. David Pointer, 2015, "Foreword", 1

Kurshad Muftuoglu, Jong H. Kim, Donna Post Guillen, Horst Michael Prasser, Seungjin Kim and Elia Merzari, 2014, "Foreword"

Elia Merzari, H. Ninokata and E. Baglietto, 2009, "Corrigendum to "Numerical simulation of flows in tight-lattice fuel bundles" [Nuclear Engineering and Design 238 (2008) 1703-1719] (DOI:10.1016/j.nucengdes.2008.01.001)", Nuclear Engineering and Design, 239, (3), pp. 611

• ANS Fellow, American Nuclear Society, September 2023

• NURETH Fellow, American Nuclear Society, August 2023

• R&D100 Award, R&D World Magazine, November 2023

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