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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair:
David Griesheimer (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Session Organizer:
Jeffery D. Densmore (Naval Nuclear Laboratory)
Student Producer:
Cole Tagasuki (NC State Univ.)
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Continuous Energy Coarse Mesh Transport Method for Time-Dependent Neutron Transport Problems
3:30–3:55PM EDT
Dingkang Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Farzad Rahnema (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Paper
Step Change in the Fuel Density During k-Power Iteration for Time-Dependent Neutron Transport
3:55–4:20PM EDT
Yasushi Nauchi (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
Monte Carlo Compton Scattering in the Optically Thin Limit: Stabilizing the Temperature in Thermal Radiation Transport When Scatters are Rare
4:20–4:45PM EDT
Brooks E. Kinch (LANL), Mathew A. Cleveland (LANL)
Monte Carlo Thermal Radiation Transport With Nonlinear Elimination
4:45–5:10PM EDT
Adam Q. Lam (LLNL), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State Univ.), Thomas A. Brunner (LLNL)
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