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My Story: John L. Swanson—ANS member since 1978
. . . and in 2019, on his 90th birthday.
Swanson in 1951, the year of his college graduation . . .
My pre-college years were spent in a rural suburb of Tacoma, Wash. In 1947, I enrolled in Reed College, a small liberal arts school in Portland, Ore.; I majored in chemistry and graduated in 1951. While at Reed, I met and married a young lady with whom I would raise 3 children and spend the next 68 years of my life—almost all of them in Richland, Wash., where I still live.
I was fortunate to have a job each of my “college summers” that provided enough money to cover my college costs for the next year; I don’t think that is possible these days. My job was in the kitchen/dining hall of a salmon cannery in Alaska. Room and board were provided and the cannery was in an isolated location, so I could save almost every dollar of my salary.
Longfei Xu, Huayun Shen, Junxia Wei, Liujun Pan
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 161-182
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2021.1941565
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The neutron transport equation is usually solved against a stationary background medium. When the background material is moving, the transport equation will need to be modified. Solving the transport equation with moving material is quite complicated, especially for the curved coordinate system because of the double angular redistributions. In this study, the discretization method of the simplified transport equation considering the moving-material effect is implemented in three-dimensional cylindrical geometry. Directly solving this modified transport equation with the standard solution technique is problematic since the advection term introduced by moving material may render the transport solver numerically unstable. The speed ratio λ is defined for stability analysis. A forced-stable method is proposed in this study to achieve good numerical stability for any material speeds and time-step sizes. The accuracy of this new method is verified using manufactured solutions. Steady numerical results demonstrate that the effects introduced by background motion cannot be neglected as the material speed starts to approach one-tenth of the neutron speed. Moreover, transient analysis indicates that the moving background has a considerable impact on the criticality of a system.