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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.”
James R. Sheff, Robert W. Albrecht
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 2 | October 1966 | Pages 207-221
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A28163
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The theory of space-dependent stochastic fluctuations is applied to several specific geometries to illustrate the space-dependence of the correlation and spectral-density functions. One-energy-group diffusion theory is used throughout to avoid clouding the geometric effects with other effects and to simplify the calculations. The first calculations are made in the infinite medium. The resulting cross-correlation and cross-spectral-density functions are shown to yield auto-correlation and spectral-density functions which differ strikingly from the usual point-reactor result. It is shown, however, that the point-reactor result is identical to the result obtained in an infinite reactor with a uniformly distributed detector. The effect of boundaries upon the fluctuations is examined from both the point of view of a finite detector and systems involving one or more boundaries. The case of the unreflected homogenous cubical reactor is solved. The results of cross-correlation and spectral-density calculations are displayed. The special case of the auto-correlation and spectral-density functions is compared to the point-reactor or space-independent result to show that significant departure from space independence is to be expected if detectors are placed away from axes of symmetry. This latter result obtains even when the extraneous source distribution is assumed to be fundamental mode.