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Fermilab center renamed after late particle physicist Helen Edwards
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Integrated Engineering Research Center, which officially opened in January 2024, is now known as the Helen Edwards Engineering Center. The name was changed to honor the late particle physicist who led the design, construction, commissioning, and operation of the lab’s Tevatron accelerator and was part of the Water Resources Development Act signed by President Biden in December 2024, according to a Fermilab press release.
Huseyin Atilla Ozgener
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | January 2012 | Pages 281-286
Modeling and Simulations | Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13433
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The criticality eigenvalue problems of both multigroup diffusion and transport theories have slow rates of convergence when the dominance ratio is close to one. This situation arises especially in the analysis of loosely coupled reactor systems and necessitates the use of acceleration techniques. The coarse mesh rebalance method constitutes one of the prominent ones of such acceleration schemes. The coarse mesh rebalance method has been used in the acceleration of direct diffusion criticality eigenvalue problems. In this study, this acceleration method is utilized also in the solution of adjoint diffusion problems in spherical geometry. The efficiency of the acceleration method is assessed through numerical experiments and certain conclusions have been drawn regarding the use of coarse mesh rebalance in such problems.
