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Nuclear in K-12 education: Overview of ANS toolkit and reflections from educators
A free webinar today from 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. (EDT) will look at the resources that the American Nuclear Society has developed with Discovery Education and the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy to help K-12 educators teach nuclear science and technology.
The webinar will begin with an overview of the resources, followed by reflections and commentary from three educators of various grade levels on their experiences teaching nuclear science and their thoughts about ANS’s instructional materials. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session with the panelists.
Registration is required for this Nuclear Science Week event.
Dean Wang, Sicong Xiao
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 190 | Number 1 | April 2018 | Pages 45-55
Technical Paper | dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2017.1417347
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper, we propose a new prolongation method to replace the conventional flat flux ratio–based scaling approach of coarse-mesh finite difference (CMFD) for updating the flux. The new prolongation method employs a linear interpolation of the scalar flux differences at the coarse-mesh cell edges between the neutron transport and CMFD calculations. This linear prolongation scheme, called lpCMFD, can greatly improve the stability of CMFD, particularly for problems with large optical thickness. A detailed convergence study of lpCMFD based on Fourier analysis and numerical testing shows that lpCMFD is unconditionally stable and effective for a wide range of optical thicknesses.
