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Juliana Pacheco Duarte

Assistant Professor
  • Thrust Area Specialty: Nuclear Engineering Systems
Juliana Pacheco Duarte
427 Goodwin Hall
635 Prices Fork Rd.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
pachecoduarte@vt.edu
(540) 231-7388

Research Interests

  • Nuclear Safety Analysis
  • Thermal-Hydraulic Systems
  • Experimental and Computational Two-phase flow
  • Boiling and Condensation phenomena
  • Subchannel Analysis
  • Advanced Light Water Reactor
  • Small Modular Reactors
  • Inverse Heat Transfer Problems
Heat Transfer and Safety (HEATS) Lab

See Dr. Duarte's publications and research on Google Scholar.

  • 2014 - 2018, CAPES Science Without Borders Fellow
  • 2014 - IV OSCAR NIEMEYER Award for Scientific and Technological Works
  • 2013 - 2014 - Brazilian Navy Fellow

Professional Societies

  • 2015 - American Nuclear Society (ANS)
  • 2014 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  • 2011 - Brazilian Society of Risk Analysis, Process Safety, and Reliability (ABRISCO)
  • 2010 - Brazilian Nuclear Energy Society (ABEN)
  • Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Sao Paulo, 2014
  • B.S., Nuclear Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2013
  • B.S., Physics, State University of Campinas, 2016