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April Novak

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering

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Scholarly Papers (6)

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Capture and In-Situ Conversion of CO2 Using Novel Plasma Technology Under Ambient Conditions

Proceedings of the 17th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-17) 20-24 October 2024
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2025
Beomhui Lee, April Novak, Davide Curreli, Cai Lili, Jiajun He and Chinmoy Baroi
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Net-Zero Center of Excellence, Prairie Research Institute
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Plasma, Boudouard reaction, CO production

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Integrating Direct Air Capture (DAC) with Microreactors: Pathways to Net Negative

Proceedings of the 17th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-17) 20-24 October 2024
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Nov 2024
Kevin OBrien, Caleb S. Brooks, Les Gioja, Timothy Grunloh, Chinmoy Baroi, Md Akhlak Bin Aziz, April Novak and Jiajun He
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Net-Zero Center of Excellence, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois - Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Net-Zero Center of Excellence, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
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Small Modular Reactor (SMR), Microreactor (MR), Direct Air Capture (DAC), Advanced Nuclear Reactors, DAC Hubs, Net-Zero

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Immersed Boundary Methods for the NekRS Spectral Element Navier-Stokes Solver

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 May 2026
Aya Hegazy, Dillon Shaver, Rizwan Uddin and April Novak
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Government of the United States of America - Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
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Immersed Boundary Method, CFD, NekRS, sodium fast reactors

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Thermomechanics Coupling to Monte Carlo Particle Transport on Unstructured Mesh Geometries

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Aug 2025
Mahmoud Eltawila, Pierre-Clément A. Simon, Guillaume Giudicelli, Helen Brooks, Nicholas Wozniak and April Novak
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Culham Science Centre - United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Government of the United States of America - Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
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Cardinal, OpenMC, Monte Carlo, MOOSE, multiphysics, SALAMANDER

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Reproducible Benchmark for the SNAP 8 Experimental Reactor at Operating Conditions

Number of pages: 93 Posted: 20 Nov 2025
Samuel Garcia, Mohammad Amer Allaf, Isaac Naupa, Will Schlueter, Lewis Gross, April Novak, Dan Kotlyar and Ben Lindley
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin-Madison
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SNAP, microreactor, multiphysics, benchmark, validation, verification

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Advanced Nuclear Reactor Driven Direct Air Capture for Achieving Net-Negative Emissions

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 May 2025
Md Akhlak Bin Aziz, Kevin OBrien, Les Gioja, Chinmoy Baroi, April Novak, Jiajun He, Caleb S. Brooks and Timothy Grunloh
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Net-Zero Center of Excellence, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois - Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Net-Zero Center of Excellence, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering
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Small Modular Reactor (SMR), Microreactor (MR), Direct Air Capture (DAC), Advanced Nuclear Reactors, DAC Hubs, Net-Zero