Aleks Obabko is actively working on  advanced reactor thermal-hydraulic modeling. He currently is head of an ALCC (ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge) project titled ​“U.S.-Russia Collaboration on Verification and Validation in Thermal Hydraulics: Nek5000 and Conv3D Simulation of ​“Siberia“Experiment,” for which he received 30 million hours on the IBM Blue Gene systems. He also is a fellow of the Argonne/University of Chicago Computation Institute.

Research Interests

• Computational fluid dynamics
• Nek5000
• Large eddy simulations
• Nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics