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Amy Whitley selected for the 2025 Barry Sloane Memorial Scholarship
Amy Whitley has been selected by the American Nuclear Society and American Society of Mechanical Engineers to receive the 2025 ANS/ASME Barry Sloane Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship, which was established in 2024 to recognize an undergraduate student pursuing a degree in mechanical or nuclear engineering, honors contributions of the late Barry Sloane, a past member of the ANS/ASME Joint Committee on Nuclear Risk Management (JCNRM).
Ethan Smith, Ilham Variansyah, Ryan McClarren
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 8 | August 2023 | Pages 1769-1778
Technical papers from: PHYSOR 2022 | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2142025
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We present a new approach to calculating time eigenvalues of the neutron transport operator (also known as eigenvalues) by extending the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) to allow for nonuniform time steps. The new method, called variable dynamic mode decomposition (VDMD), is shown to be accurate when computing eigenvalues for systems that were infeasible with DMD due to a large separation in timescales (such as those that occur in delayed supercritical systems). The eigenvalues of an infinite medium neutron transport problem with delayed neutrons, and consequently having multiple, very different relevant timescales, are computed. Furthermore, VDMD is shown to be of similar accuracy to the original DMD approach when computing eigenvalues in other systems where the previously studied DMD approach can be used.