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Hash Hashemian: Visionary leadership
As Dr. Hashem M. “Hash” Hashemian prepares to step into his term as President of the American Nuclear Society, he is clear that he wants to make the most of this unique moment.
A groundswell in public approval of nuclear is finding a home in growing governmental support that is backed by a tailwind of technological innovation. “Now is a good time to be in nuclear,” Hashemian said, as he explained the criticality of this moment and what he hoped to accomplish as president.
Rodolfo M. Ferrer, Yousry Y. Azmy
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 172 | Number 1 | September 2012 | Pages 33-51
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE10-106
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A reformulation of the arbitrarily high-order transport method of the characteristic type (AHOT-C) for unstructured grids (AHOT-C-UG) is presented in this work, which resolves the previous difficulties encountered in the original formalism. A general equivalence between the arbitrary-order neutron balance and arbitrary-order characteristic equations is derived, which improves the numerical computation of the spatial moments of the angular flux and allows a series expansion of the characteristic integral kernel in cases where the medium is optically thin. Numerical results are presented, which verify the convergence behavior of AHOT-C-UG for various expansion orders.
