Kevin Clarno

Biography

Dr. Clarno is an Associate Professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering program of the Mechanical Engineering Department and an Affiliate Faculty in the Oden Institute with a research focus on computational nuclear energy for multiphysics analysis of advanced nuclear reactor performance. Dr. Clarno received Nuclear Engineering degrees from MIT (BS '99) and Texas A&M University (MS '01; PhD '04), along with a MBA (Georgia Southern, '15) and worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for 15 years as a Distinguished R&D Staff member and Lead of the Reactor Physics Group. Dr. Clarno also holds a Joint Faculty Appointment with ORNL, where he was a leader in the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) program and the Consortium for the Advanced Simulation of Light-Water Reactors (CASL) Energy Innovation Hub.

Dr. Clarno’s primary research areas include: (1) multiphysics coupling methods for advanced simulation of nuclear reactors to integrate analyses and improve accuracy; (2) multiscale neutronics, fuel performance, and thermal-hydraulics to enable high resolution analyses in coupled physics applications; (3) design, optimization, and analysis of advanced commercial and test reactor concepts; (4) integration of software to optimize advanced manufacturing of nuclear technologies; and (5) propagation of uncertainties through multiphysics applications to optimize experiments.

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