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Remembering ANS member Gil Brown
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The nuclear community is mourning the loss of Gilbert Brown, who passed away on July 11 at the age of 77 following a battle with cancer.
Brown, an American Nuclear Society Fellow and an ANS member for nearly 50 years, joined the faculty at Lowell Technological Institute—now the University of Massachusetts–Lowell—in 1973 and remained there for the rest of his career. He eventually became director of the UMass Lowell nuclear engineering program. After his retirement, he remained an emeritus professor at the university.
Sukesh Aghara, chair of the Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization, noted in an email to NEDHO members and others that “Gil was a relentless advocate for nuclear energy and a deeply respected member of our professional community. He was also a kind and generous friend—and one of the reasons I ended up at UMass Lowell. He served the university with great dedication. . . . Within NEDHO, Gil was a steady presence and served for many years as our treasurer. His contributions to nuclear engineering education and to this community will be dearly missed.”
Yasunori Yamamura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 61 | Number 3 | November 1976 | Pages 377-387
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26924
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To estimate analytically the effects of discrete model and evaporation model inelastic scattering on the fast neutron spectrum, the original Greuling-Goertzel (GG) approximation was developed with the help of the generalized function theory. In place of the collision density function ψ(u), the two-term Taylor's expansion of a test function of a functional ψ was proposed to obtain analytic expressions of lethargy moments of inelastic scattering kernels. By using these moments, the author derived the standard GG approximation including all inelastic events. By introducing an approximate separable kernel of the evaporation model inelastic scattering, another conventional treatment of inelastic scatterings was proposed, i.e., the external source approximation of inelastic scattering. In this approximate method, elastic scattering was treated by the ordinary GG approximation. The present standard GG theory was useful for the preliminary description of fast neutron spectrum in a mixture in which a large amount of fuel elements is not included, while the external source approximation was shown to estimate reasonably the effects of inelastic scattering on fast neutron spectrum in any medium.