Dr. Victor Petrov

Dr. Petrov is the Lead Research Scientist and Lab Director at the Nuclear Systems and Multiphase Flows Laboratory NS-ECML at ETH Zurich.

His research focus area is experimental and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), with the main focus on nuclear power plant applications. His current main activities are related to high-fidelity high-resolution experiments for liquid metal-filled heat pipes, development and application of high-resolution gamma-tomography, and high-speed X-ray radiography for multiphase and nontransparent flows, multiphysics modeling of CRUD deposition on reactor fuel rods, etc.

Victor Petrov holds a M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering and a M.Sc. in Investigation and Modeling of Explosions and Fires, both from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU). He also holds a Ph.D. in Engineering (Systems Analysis) from the Institute of Engineering Physics (IIF) and Moscow State Industrial University, Russia.