05/24/03

 I was born in 1973 in a small town called Yenipazar.  I grew up in Soke. Then for my college education, I moved to the capital city of Turkey, Ankara, in which I became a nuclear engineer and lived more than 10 years. In year 2000, I made a step change in my life and moved to the US for my PhD studies.... I've been living in State College, PA since then....go lions :)

 I am now enrolled in Nuclear Engineering program at PennState University. Here is my academic background:

•  BS in Nuclear Engineering, 1996, Nuclear Engineering Department, Hacettepe University, Turkey

•  BS Thesis : HTR-600 Pebble Bed Reactor Design (steam cycle)

•  Neutronic design:

  •   Few-Group Cross Section Generation

  •   Core Calculations

• Balance of the plant design, heat exchanger design, & steam generator design

 

•  MS in Nuclear Engineering, 1999, Nuclear Engineering Department, Hacettepe University, Turkey

  •  MS Thesis : Effects of Advanced Fuel Management Strategies on Fuel Burnup

   

•  And here is the list of my research at PennState (go lions :) )

  •  Coupled 3-D Neutron Kinetics/Thermal Hydraulics,

  •  Developing fast running coupled 3-D Neutron Kinetics/Thermal Hydraulics,

  •  InCore Fuel Management,

  •  Neutronics analysis of High Burnup Fuels

  •  Beam Port Facility simulation for research reactors

   

•  The list of publications:

   

  • Optimum Cycle Length and Discharge Burnup For Nuclear Fuel, ANS 2002 Annual Meeting, June 2002, J. Secker, R. McCord, O. Ozer, S. Yilmaz, B. Johansen, R. Tropasso, K. Edsinger, B. Sarikaya, H. Lam, J. Morrow, K. Ivanov, M. Hone, E. Young, T. Rieck
  • Boiling Water Reactor Turbine Trip Benchmark, Volume 1: Final Specifications, Jorge Solis, Kostadin N. Ivanov, Baris Sarikaya, Andy M. Olson, and Kenneth W. Hunt, NEA/NSC/DOC(2001)1, February 2001
  • Burnup characteristics and performance of boron nitride and boron coated urania and urania-gadolinia fuels, H.H. Durmazucar, U. Colak, B. Sarikaya, G. Gunduz, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 203 (1) 2001
  • Effects of Advanced Fuel Management Strategies on Fuel Burnup, 1999, Thesis of Master of Science Prepared in The Nuclear Engineering Department of Hacettepe University, Turkey