Apulaisprofessori (tenure track) Heikki Suikkanen

E-mail: Heikki.Suikkanen@lut.fi
Mobile phone: +358 40 152 9433
CV:
Uploaded on: 08/01/2019

Current Organisation
Nuclear Safety Research Unit (Superior organisation: Laboratory of Energy Technology)

Research Interest
Dr. Suikkanen has over 10 years of experience in nuclear engineering research, especially in the numerical modelling of gas-cooled reactor systems, such as pebble bed high temperature gas cooled reactors, for which he has developed coupled multi-physics calculation methods covering reactor physics, thermal-hydraulics and pebble bed mechanics. In addition, he has experience in reactor physics and fuel behavior analyses of light water reactors. Dr. Suikkanen has been involved in several academic as well as more industry-oriented research projects and several expert groups. Most recently he has led a work package on nuclear criticality safety in an EU funded research project in which a new fuel design was developed for older reactor types of Russian design.

Teaching Experience
Dr. Suikkanen has over 10 years of experience in teaching university level courses. He has been involved as a teacher in several nuclear engineering courses ranging from the BSc level basic courses (e.g. Introduction to nuclear energy, Fundamentals of nuclear engineering) to more advanced MSc level courses (e.g. Nuclear reactor dynamics, Applied reactor physics) as well as in more general courses, such as numerical methods in heat and mass transfer. Since 2017, he has also lectured in the national nuclear safety course YJK (formerly known as the YK course) organized annually for the professionals working in the nuclear field in Finland. Dr. Suikkanen has completed 12 ECTS worth of university pedagogy training. He has also experience in supervision of several MSc and BSc theses.

Projects as Principal Investigator


Projects as Project Manager
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Kuulakekoreaktorin sydämen kytketty monifysikaalinen mallinnus (01/01/2015 - 31/08/2016)
Funder: Academy of Finland


Publications
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Development of coupled neutronics and fuel performance analysis capabilities between Serpent and TRANSURANUS (2020)
A1 Journal article (refereed), original research
Suikkanen Heikki, Rintala Ville, Schubert Arndt, et al.
Nuclear Engineering and Design
Enhancing the Performance of Fission Source Convergence with Functional Expansion Tallies in Serpent 2 Monte Carlo Code (2020)
A4 Conference proceedings
Jambrina Ana, Leppänen Jaakko, Suikkanen Heikki
Physics of Reactors conferences
PHYSOR 2020: Transition to Scalable Nuclear Energy. Cambridge, UK, March 29-April 2, 2020
Reactor core conceptual design for a scalable heating experimental reactor, LUTHER2020
A4 Conference proceedings
Truong Thinh, Suikkanen Heikki, Hyvärinen Juhani
Physics of Reactors conferences
International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2020 (PHYSOR2020)
Assessing the Performance of Functional Expansion Tallies in the Serpent 2 Monte Carlo Code (2019)
A4 Conference proceedings
Suikkanen Heikki, Rintala Ville
International Conference on Mathematics Computational Methods and Reactor Physics (M&C 2019), Portland, OR, August 25-29, 2019
Criticality safety ananlyses of Westinghouse VVER-440 fuel with Serpent and SCALE (2017)
B3 Unrefereed conference proceedings
Suikkanen Heikki, Rintala Ville, Gann Volodymyr, et al.
27th Symposium of AER on VVER Reactor Physics and Reactor Safety
DEM in Analyses of Nuclear Pebble Bed Reactors (2017)
A4 Conference proceedings
Suikkanen Heikki, Rintala Ville, Hyvärinen Juhani
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods
TRANSURANUS - Serpent Coupling, ESSANUF D3.7 (2017)
D4 Published development or research report or study
Suikkanen Heikki, Rintala Ville
VVER-440 fault analysis methodology for Finland, ESSANUF D3.9 (2017)
D4 Published development or research report or study
Suikkanen Heikki, Rintala Ville
Fuel Rod Design Methodology for Finland, ESSANUF D4.6 (2016)
D4 Published development or research report or study
Suikkanen Heikki, Laine Jani


Keywords
Fission reactors
Nuclear energy
Nuclear engineering
Nuclear safety

Last updated on 2019-08-01 at 14:23