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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|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Richard Vasques (The Ohio State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL)
Student Producer:
Thomas Folk (Univ. of Michigan)
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Theory and Generation Methods for N-ary Stochastic Mixtures with Markovian Mixing Statistics
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Aaron Olson (Sandia), Shawn Pautz (Sandia), Dan Bolintineanu (Sandia), Emily Vu (Univ. of Michigan)
Paper
Benchmark Comparisons of Monte Carlo Algorithms for One-Dimensional N-ary Stochastic Media
1:45–2:10PM EDT
Emily H. Vu (Univ. of Michigan), Patrick S. Brantley (LLNL), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia), Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. of Michigan)
Amnesia Radius Versions of Conditional Point Sampling for Radiation Transport in 1D Stochastic Media
2:10–2:35PM EDT
Emily H. Vu (Univ. of Michigan), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia)
Markovian Binary Mixtures: Benchmarks for the Albedo Problem
2:35–3:00PM EDT
Coline Larmier (CEA), Eugene d'Eon (NVIDIA), Andrea Zoia (CEA)
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