Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
Name: Takács Antal
Date and place of birth: 30 January 1963,
Nationality: Hungarian
E-mail: takacs@aeki.kfki.hu
Education and Degrees
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2008- | counsellor |
1992-2008 | research fellow |
1987-1992 | research assistant |
1982-1987 | mathematician engineer, MScTech, Technical University of Budapest (TU) Diploma thesis: Investigation of Flame Structures, Department of Energy Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TU of Budapest |
1969-1981 | Radnóti Miklós High School of ELTE, Budapest faculty of physics-English |
Professional Experience
2013- | CATHARE calculations of KAERI ATLAS tests |
2008 | CATHARE VVER-440 Calculation of a Process Following an SG Collector Lid Opening (HAEA) |
2008-2009 | CATHARE calculations of selected PMK2 transients for PMK book Vol II The whole spectrum of transients: PHS-05 (0.6% CL LOCA), IMP-22 (7.4% CL LOCA with B&F), PH4-SLB (32% PRZ SL break), OM5-FW (loss of FW), SPE-3 (primary and secondary leakage) |
2009-2011 | Participation in ISP-50 ATLAS international thermalhydraulical code validation project using CATHARE TH system code organized by OECD/NEA and KAERI) |
2009 | Participation at 23rd CUC (CATHARE Users Club) Meeting and in C2V2.5 & GUITHARE Training Workshop, 3-11 June, CENG, France |
2009 | 3rd International Workshop on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulic Integral Effect Tests organized by KAERI, 20 April, Daenjeon, Dél-Korea |
2005-2009 | CATHARE plant calculations and comparison with BME NTI APROS calculations for HAEA. 2005 PRZ valve pipe break with one base case and 3 subcases, 2006 200% CL LBLOCA transient during cool-down, 2007 Main steam line break in the reactor hall, 2008 Hot collector cover opening transient |
2004 | Core model development in CATHARE input of VVER-440 for HAEA, LOFT-L2_5 post-test calculation. |
2003 | CATHARE 6-loop plant calculations compared with plant test data and RELAP5 for HAEA 1. inadvertent scram, 2. one MCP results trip by false signal |
2003 | IAEA Regional Workshop on Deterministic Safety Analysis, 5-9 May, JSI, Ljubljana Safety Margins, Conservative vs. Best Estimate Analyses, Uncertainty Analyses, Validation and Verification of Codes |
2002 | Co-author of a VVER-440/V213 specific data base for system TH code calculations |
2001 | ETH Multiphase Flow CFD Training Course, 19-23 March, Zürich selected elements of numerical fluid mechanics: DNS, LES, VoF |
2000 | Analysis of boron concentration evolution in primary circuit by FLUENT code. |
2000-2001 | Participation in ICARE/CATHARE non-regressive coupled code validation for CENC. |
2000 | IAEA Regional Training Course on "The Use of System Computer Codes for Accident Analysis", 25 Sept - 13 Oct, UZ Zagreb Qualification of experimental data, code validation methods, RELAP5, ATHLET, CATHARE, accuracy and uncertainty, nodalization techniques, user effects, CFD, transient analysis. |
1999-2009 | Several CATHARE plant transient calculations for the HAEA, validation of the six-loop plant input deck |
1999 | Development of a 6-loop CATHARE input model for a unit of VVER-440/V213 of Paks NPP |
1999 | CATHARE calculations in PHARE SRR3 project. 1. heat transfer degradation on PMK2, 2. 0.5% CLB LOCA on PMK2 with HPIS overfeed, 3. simulation of case 2 on 2-loop plant input deck |
1998-1999 | Study of CATHARE French TH/system code at CEN Grenoble (half year scholarship) |
1995 | Study of VVER-specific critical heat flux correlations (Bezrukov, Smolin) |
1992 | Study of ESCADRE French-German severe accident code at CEN Cadarache (half year scholarship) |
1991-1994 | Participation in AGNES Project |
1990 | IAEA Technical Workshop on Computer Aided Safety Analysis, 14-17 May, Moscow |
1989-1990 | SPE-2 and ISP-26 calculation by the Finnish TH system code SMABRE. |
1989 | Lappeenranta Sixth Summer School on Heat Transfer, 7-10 August, Finland |
1987-1988 | Calculation of a TOSHIBA blow down experiment by a code self developed. |
Research Interest
Thermohydraulical safety analysis of PWRs and modelling small scale facilities by French system code CATHARE.
professional interest: nuclear safety, two phase phenomena, heat transport, hydrodynamics, applied mathematics
Awards
1987 | Medal for Eminent Professional and Study Performance, TU of Budapest |
1987 | Investigation of Flame Structures, thesis competition, 2nd place, TU of Budapest |
1986 | Connection of flame noise and flame structure, university competition, 2nd place (co-author), TU of Budapest |
1983 | On the Solipsism of George Berkeley, university competition, 3rd place |
Publications
Please visit Publications headline.
Membership
Hungarian Nuclear Society |
Other Skills
OS experience: DOS, VMS, UNIX, WNT, language: FORTRAN
Hobby: literature, music, philosophy, fine arts, drawing/book illustration, numismatics
Else: astronomy, interdisciplinarity, science and religion, sleep and dream
languages: English (good command), Russian (passive)