Professor M. Ishii has over 30 years of research experience in the reactor safety and thermal-hydraulics area. His activities cover both experimental and analytical studies. He has published over 140 journal papers and authored over 250 conference papers and about 30 formal Argonne National Laboratory reports including 15 NUREG Nuclear Regulatory Commission reports.
Interests
- Design development of compact modular simplified boiling water reactor
- 3-D two-fluid model development
- Interfacial area transport equation development
- Interfacial phenomena and transfer in multiphase flow systems
- Two-phase flow instrumentation development for local microscale phenomena
- Two-phase flow visualization using AI technology
- Subcooled boiling microscale physics experiment and modeling
- Two-phase flow diagnostic system for industrial applications
- LWR and LMFBR safety analysis
- Advanced light water reactor safety
- Nuclear coupled two-phase flow instabilities and flow induced critical heat flux
- Severe accident analysis
- Simplified boiling water reactor safety
- Advanced computer code development for two-phase flow and reactor safety
- Microgravity interfacial structure development
- Annular flow entrainment and film dryout
- Condensation with non-condensable gas
- Air ingression in ECCS suction
- Natural circulation BWR start-up instability
- Flow induced vibration
- Counter-current flow limitation
- Flow instability in natural circulation small modular reactors
- Bubble nucleation characteristics in subcooled boiling flow
- Flow dynamics in counter-current two-phase flow in coal fired plant scrubber
- Bubble jet plume dispersion in a large pool
Education
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Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, 1971
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Master of Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, 1968
New York University
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Bachelor of Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, 1966
Yokohama National University