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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
Bradley L. Wescott, Rizwan-uddin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 139 | Number 3 | November 2001 | Pages 293-305
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE01-A2239
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An alternate formulation of the recently proposed modified nodal integral method (MNIM) has been developed to further reduce computation time when solving nonlinear partial differential equations with a nonlinear convection term such as Burgers' equation and the Navier-Stokes equation. In this formulation, by adding and subtracting a linearized convection term, in which the node-averaged velocity at the previous time step multiplies the spatial derivative, the node-interior approximate analytical solution is developed in terms of this previous time-step node-averaged velocity. This leads to a set of discrete equations with coefficients that need to be evaluated only once each time step for each node, resulting in a significant reduction in computing time when compared with the original MNIM formulation. A numerical scheme using the node-averaged velocities at the previous time step - to be referred to as M2NIM - for the two-dimensional, time-dependent Burgers' equation has been developed. The method is shown to be second order and to posses inherent upwinding. When compared with MNIM, numerical results show a significant reduction in the computation time without sacrificing accuracy.