John J. Dorning
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Whitney Stone Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Professor, Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics
Ph.D., Columbia University
 
Dr. Dorning has served on the faculty since 1984. He has published more than 200 scientific and technical articles. He is the senior editor of Transport Theory and Statistical Physics and serves on the editorial boards of other international journals. He has received the American Nuclear Society's Mark Mills Award, the American Association for Engineering Education's Glenn Murphy Award, the American Nuclear Society's Arthur Holly Compton Award, the American Nuclear Society's Eugene P. Wigner Award, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award. He has held a number of visiting professorships internationally.
 
Research Interests
John Dorning's research interests include nonlinear dynamical systems and deterministic chaos, computational methods development, plasma physics, particle and radiation transport theory, the kinetic theory of gases, fission reactor theory, fission reactor kinetics, fluid mechanics, and thermohydraulics.
 
Sponsored Research

  • Advanced Computational Methods for Meteorological Models (funded by: NASA)

  • Nodal Methods for Meteorological Models (funded by: NASA)

  • Advanced Computational Methods for the Numerical Solution of Meteorological Flow Problems (funded by: NASA)

  • The Effects of Nonlinear Plasma Waves on Energy and Particle Transport to the Ionosphere (funded by: NASA)

  • Systematic Assembly Homogenization and Local Flux Reconstruction for Nodal Method Calculations of Fast Reactor Power Distributions (funded by: U.S. Department of Energy)

  • Nonlinear Stability Models and Analyses of the Nuclear-Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic Behavior of Boiling Water Reactors (funded by: U.S. Department of Energy)

  • Studies on Limit Cycles and the Nonlinear Dynamics of Boiling Water Reactors (funded by: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency)

  • Nonlinear Analysis and Chaos in Fluid Dynamics (funded by: U.S. Department of Defense)

  • Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (funded by: Argonne National Laboratory)

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