Amani Cheniour
R&D Associate: Modeling of composite materials in nuclear systems
Bio
Amani Cheniour is an R&D Associate in the Nuclear Structures and Construction group at ORNL. She earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Florida in 2020. Her research focuses on multiscale modeling of nuclear materials using high performance computing.
Specifically, her current research is focused on three areas:
· Finite element modeling of nuclear fuel performance at different length scales using the codes MARMOT for fuel microstructure evolution simulations and BISON for engineering scale thermomechanical modeling.
· Modeling radiation-induced damage in concrete at the microstructural scale using the fast-Fourier transform code MOSAIC. Moreover, she led the development of a structural finite element model of the concrete biological shield in light water reactors to evaluate its structural performance under irradiation using the Grizzly code.
· Recently, she has expanded her research to employ artificial intelligence to improve the performance of multiscale models.