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The when, where, why, and how of RIPB design
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series.
Watch the full webinar here.
Technical Session|Radiative Transfer Methods
Monday, April 28, 2025|3:15–4:55PM MDT|E.P. Ensley A
Session Chair:
Alex R. Long (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Nick Gentile (LLNL)
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Accurate Reduced Floating-Point Precision Implicit Monte Carlo
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Simon Butson (Oregon State), Mathew Cleveland (LANL), Alex Long (LANL), Todd Palmer (Oregon State)
Paper
Reduced Memory Discretization Scheme for Time-Dependent Thermal Radiative Transfer Problems
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Rylan C. Paye (NCSU), Joseph M. Coale (LANL), James S. Warsa (LANL), Dmitriy Y. Anistratov (NCSU), Connor A. Woodsford (LANL), Jim E. Morel (TAMU)
Implicit Opacities in Thermal Radiative Transfer
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Samuel Olivier (LANL), Quincy A. Huhn (TAMU), James S. Warsa (LANL)
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Deterministic Particle Transport for Reducing Noise in Thermal Radiative Transfer
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Benjamin L. Estrada (Oregon State), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State), Nicholas A. Gentile (LLNL)
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