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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.”
Jiri Stepanek
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 78 | Number 1 | May 1981 | Pages 53-65
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE81-A19606
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The transport equation in slab geometry is solved by means of the DPN “surface flux” method, based on a Pn polynomial expansion in both angle and space and a double Pn approximation of the angular distribution at interval surfaces. The method, which has been incorporated into the multigroup transport code SURCU, is compared to a number of different codes such as ANISN, DIT, etc. For a given accuracy in the flux SURCU turns out to be faster than other codes since it needs fewer spatial flux moments than other programs need regions or space points. In addition, the required DPN surface flux approximation is much lower than the corresponding Sn approximation. A number of similarities between the present method and both Sn theory and collision probabilities are discussed.
