Ovidiu-Adrian Berar

Research Assistant
Univ. Dipl. EE

Jožef Stefan
Institute
Jamova cesta 39
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

Phone: +386 1 5885 367
Fax: +386 1 5885 377
E-mail: adrian.berar@ijs.si

Research Interests

• Thermal-Hydraulics system code analysis (TRACE, RELAP5).
• Thermal-Hydraulics of PWR.

Education

• Current (2010 - ) - PhD studies in Nuclear Engineering program, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana.
• 2008 - 2009 – Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Industrial Energetics Department, Postgraduate Advanced Studies.
• 2008 Dipl. Ing. EE Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.
• 2003 - 2008 – Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Industrial Energetics Department.

Professional Experience

Since February 2010 working as junior researcher at the Reactor Engineering Division, Jozef Stefan Institute.

Professional Societys

• Nuclear Society of Slovenia

Selected Publications

The full list of publications is maintained by COBISS. Links to publications use the Digital Object Identifier System DOI.

Articles in SCI Journals

• PROŠEK, Andrej, BERAR, Ovidiu-Adrian. Advanced presentation of BETHSY 6.2TC Test results calculated by RELAP5 and TRACE. Sci. Technol. Nucl. Install. (Print), 2012, vol. 2012, str. 812130-1-812130-15, doi: 10.1155/2012/812130. [COBISS.SI-ID 25916711]

Selected Scientific Conference Contributions

• BERAR, Ovidiu-Adrian, PROŠEK, Andrej, MAVKO, Borut. Analysis of ISP-25 experiment using RELAP5 and TRACE with three-dimensional thermal-hydraulic vessel component. V: JENÄŒIÄŒ, Igor (ur.). 20th International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe 2011, September 12-15, 2011, Bovec, Slovenia. Proceedings. Ljubljana: Nuclear Society of Slovenia, 2011, 8 str. [COBISS.SI-ID 25479975]
• BERAR, Ovidiu-Adrian, PROŠEK, Andrej. Relap5 and TRACE calculations with quantitative assessment against Achillles natural reflood experiment. V: Performance & flexibility : the power of innovation : ICAPP 2011, International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, May 2-6, 2011, Nice, France. [S. l.]: Omnipress, cop. 2011, str. 1935-1942. [COBISS.SI-ID 24701735]
• BERAR, Ovidiu-Adrian, PROŠEK, Andrej, MAVKO, Borut. RELAP5 to TRACE input model conversion procedure and advanced post processing of the results for the ISP-25 test. V: 21st International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe, Ljubljana 2012, September 5-7. ŽAGAR, Tomaž (ur.), FÜRST, Samo (ur.). Proceedings. Ljubljana: Nuclear Society of Slovenia, 2012, 12 str. [COBISS.SI-ID 26388519]
• BERAR, Ovidiu-Adrian, PROŠEK, Andrej, LESKOVAR, Matjaž, MAVKO, Borut. Two-loop PWR RELAP5 to TRACE model conversion and three dimensional vessel model development for coolant mixing analysis. V: Proceedings of the 2014 nternational Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, (ICAPP 2014, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 6-9, 2014. Le Grange Park: American Nuclear Society, 2014, str. 1540-1546. [COBISS.SI-ID 27626023]

Professional monograph

• PROŠEK, Andrej, BERAR, Ovidiu-Adrian, MAVKO, Borut. IJS procedure for converting Input deck from RELAP5 to TRACE, (International agreement report, NUREG/IA-0408). Washington: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2012. 73 str. http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1230/ML12305A164.pdf. [COBISS.SI-ID 26471207]
• BERAR, Ovidiu-Adrian, PROŠEK, Andrej. Assessment against ACHILLES reflood experiment with TRACE V5.0 Patch3, (International agreement report, NUREG/IA-0441). Washington: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2014. http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1405/ML14050A387.pdf. [COBISS.SI-ID 27626535]