Education

Ph.D., Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009.
M.S., Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007.
M.S. Nuclear Engineering, Hacettepe University, 2005.
B.S., Nuclear Engineering, Hacettepe University, 2003.

Research Interests

Fuel Performance Modeling, Thermal-hydraulics, Neutronics
Modeling and Simulation of Multi-physics Multi-scale Systems
System Optimization

Publications

• A. Karahan, J. Buongiorno and Mujid S. Kazimi, "Development of a New Irradiation Performance Code for Metal Fuels," Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors," ANS Conference(June 2008).
• A. Karahan et al., “Safety Evaluation of the Large BWR Assembly With Small Pins,” ICAPP, Paper 9142, Tokyo, Japan, 2009.
• A. Karahan, J. Buongiorno and M. S. Kazimi, "An Evolutionary Fuel Assembly Design For High Power Density BWRs," ICAPP, Paper 7105, Nice, France (May 2007).
• A. Karahan, M. Tombakoglu, “Burnup Dependent Calculations via MCNP-4B,” v. 93, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society - 2005, Winter Meeting, 2005, p. 630-631.
• C. N. Sokmen, M. Tombakoglu, A. Karahan, C. Celik, “Coupled neutronics /thermal-hydraulics calculation of PBMR-400 equilibrium core,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society - 2005, Winter Meeting, 2005, p. 942-944.