MANSOURIFrom reactor physics
to systems at sea.
NINE PHOTOGRAPHS. ONE NAME. · CREDITS ↗
Liquid water + heat → water vapor
Follow the water. Find the heat.
Nucleation, growth and departure in a separate boiling experiment.
Boiling research with Professor Yoonjin Won. Stylized phase change—not CFD or electrolyzer boiling.
Scientific context & film transcript
Seven connected research topics—not one demonstrated plant. Camera travel and match-cuts connect different materials, devices and experiments. Sizes, timing and molecule symbols are not to scale.
- A separate boiling experiment with Professor Yoonjin Won shows nucleation, growth and departure at a heated surface. The transition to ATLAS is a narrative connection between projects.
- ATLAS deposits Pt/C catalyst ink on a gas-diffusion substrate to make an electrode. The XY bed makes overlapping edge-overrun passes under a fixed nozzle. The completed GDE moves right, stands upright and remains the same electrode in the cell. This coating process is separate from the preceding boiling experiment.
- Named PEM layers assemble. H₂ enters the anode; oxygen in air enters the cathode. Protons cross the membrane; electrons reach the cathode through an external load. Product water may be liquid and/or vapor. Heat is removed mainly by cooling—not only radiation.
- A continuous pullback reveals the cell inside a stack and the proposed Oasis of the Seas retrofit. Main propulsion is aft. Electricity, recovered heat and LH₂ cold recovery are revealed in turn. The time-compressed itinerary follows Table 5; placement is illustrative.
- FCV Vanguard has compressed H₂ storage, twin fuel-cell modules, a battery on the common HV bus and an inverter-fed electric motor. Fuel-cell DC/DC converters feed that bus. Surplus fuel-cell power can charge the battery underway; one fuel cell can charge it while stopped. The cinematic overtake is not a documented joint voyage.
- Wind and solar electricity power electrolysis and green-ammonia production. Oxygen leaves the electrolyzer as a coproduct; nitrogen is separated from air for Haber–Bosch synthesis.
- After ammonia fades fully to black, AND introduces Nuclear Reactor Research. A representative submerged core increases in power, with more symbolic neutron markers at unchanged animation speed. Fuel stays fixed; only equivalent absorber sections move. This time-compressed educational model is not a UCI core loading map or operating procedure. Hollywood Mansouri is shown as a reactor operator in training, under supervision. Ending model and visual scope.
Sources & model-audit scope ↗ · Interactive research projects ↗
Fuel cells. Hydrogen.
Curiosity made physical.
Fuel-cell hardware with Jack Brouwer.
Boiling research with Professor Yoonjin Won.
Nuclear reactor operator in training.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE SYSTEMS
- 2027
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Expected · UC Irvine - 2026
- M.Eng. Advanced Manufacturing
- 2025
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering
FROM REACTOR PHYSICS TO SYSTEMS AT SEA.
A conversation starts here.
02 / THE PUBLISHED RECORD
Evidence.
Not adjectives.
PUBLISHED AS MANSOURIFILESTAN, M.
ORCID ↗
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING / 2026
Feasibility of Zero-Emission Cruise Ships: A Novel Hydrogen Tri-Generation System for Propulsion and Hotel Loads
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY / 2026








