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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|Deterministic Transport Methods and Applications
Monday, April 28, 2025|1:00–2:40PM MDT|Lawrence A
Session Chair:
Andrew Till (LLNL)
Alternate Chair:
Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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Stabilizing the Consistent Quasidiffusion Method with Linear Prolongation
1:00–1:25PM MDT
Dean Wang (Ohio State)
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A Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration Scheme for THOR's AHOT-C0 Method on Unstructured Tetrahedral Meshes
1:25–1:50PM MDT
Gokhan Pediz (NCSU), Yousry Azmy (NCSU)
Particle Transport Acceleration with 'Consistent' Eddington Factors
1:50–2:15PM MDT
Tomas M. Paganin (Ohio State), Richard Vasques (Ohio State), Edward W. Larsen (Univ. Michigan)
Revisiting Stabilization Methods for 2D/1D Calculations in MPACT
2:15–2:40PM MDT
Sooyoung Choi (Univ. Michigan), Brendan Kochunas (Univ. Michigan)
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