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Variationally Derived Discontinuity Factors for the Asymptotic Homogenized Diffusion Equation
Travis J. Trahan, Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 1-35
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-27
Discrete Ordinates Quadratures Based on Linear and Quadratic Discontinuous Finite Elements over Spherical Quadrilaterals
Cheuk Y. Lau, Marvin L. Adams
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 36-52
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-28
Nonnegative Methods for Bilinear Discontinuous Differencing of the SN Equations on Quadrilaterals
Peter G. Maginot, Jean C. Ragusa, Jim E. Morel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 53-69
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-38
Parallel Deterministic Transport Sweeps of Structured and Unstructured Meshes with Overloaded Mesh Decompositions
Shawn D. Pautz, Teresa S. Bailey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 70-77
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-34
Nonclassical Particle Transport in One-Dimensional Random Periodic Media
Richard Vasques, Kai Krycki, Rachel N. Slaybaugh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 78-106
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-35
An SN Algorithm for Modern Architectures
Randal S. Baker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 107-116
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-124
Multigroup Radiation Hydrodynamics with a High-Order–Low-Order Method
A. B. Wollaber, H. Park, R. B. Lowrie, R. M. Rauenzahn, M. A. Cleveland
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 117-129
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-45
A Fusion-Oriented Neutronics Modeling and Multiphysics Coupling System
Yuefeng Qiu, Lei Lu, Ulrich Fischer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 130-138
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-25
Diagnosing Undersampling Biases in Monte Carlo Eigenvalue and Flux Tally Estimates
Christopher M. Perfetti, Bradley T. Rearden, William J. Marshall
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 139-158
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-54
A High-Order Low-Order Algorithm with Exponentially Convergent Monte Carlo for Thermal Radiative Transfer
Simon R. Bolding, Mathew A. Cleveland, Jim E. Morel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 159-173
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-36
Application of a Discretized Phase-Space Approach to the Analysis of Monte Carlo Uncertainties
Thomas M. Sutton
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 174-183
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-131
Preliminary Coupling of the Monte Carlo Code OpenMC and the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment for Analyzing Doppler Feedback in Monte Carlo Simulations
Matthew Ellis, Derek Gaston, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 184-193
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-26
Numerical Methods in Coupled Monte Carlo and Thermal-Hydraulic Calculations
Daniel F. Gill, David P. Griesheimer, David L. Aumiller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 194-205
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-3
The Inclusion of Photofission, Photonuclear, (n, xn), (n, n'xγ), and (n, xγ) Reactions in the Neutron-Gamma Feynman-Alpha Variance-to-Mean Formalism
Dina Chernikova, Imre Pázsit, Andrea Favalli, Stephen Croft
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 206-216
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-47
VERA Core Simulator Methodology for Pressurized Water Reactor Cycle Depletion
Brendan Kochunas, Benjamin Collins, Shane Stimpson, Robert Salko, Daniel Jabaay, Aaron Graham, Yuxuan Liu, Kang Seog Kim, William Wieselquist, Andrew Godfrey, Kevin Clarno, Scott Palmtag, Thomas Downar, Jess Gehin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 217-231
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-39
Optimizing the Monte Carlo Neutron Cross-Section Construction Code XSBench for MIC and GPU Platforms
Tianyu Liu, Noah Wolfe, Christopher D. Carothers, Wei Ji, X. George Xu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 232-242
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-33
A 2-D/1-D Transverse Leakage Approximation Based on Azimuthal, Fourier Moments
Shane Stimpson, Benjamin Collins, Thomas Downar
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 2 | February 2017 | Pages 243-262
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272360
Control Rod Calculation in Axially Heterogeneous Fast Reactors—I: Influence of the Absorber Environment
M. Andersson, D. Blanchet, H. Nylén, R. Jacqmin
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 2 | February 2017 | Pages 263-276
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272358
Control Rod Calculation in Axially Heterogeneous Fast Reactors—II: Impact of Three-Dimensional Homogenization on Core Parameters
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 2 | February 2017 | Pages 277-293
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272359
Globally Conservative, Hybrid Self-Adjoint Angular Flux and Least-Squares Method Compatible with Voids
Vincent M. Laboure, Ryan G. McClarren, Yaqi Wang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 2 | February 2017 | Pages 294-306
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272374
A Consistent CMFD Formulation for the Acceleration of Neutron Transport Calculations Based on the Finite Element Method
Yeon Sang Jung, Won Sik Yang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 2 | February 2017 | Pages 307-324
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272369
Comparison of Two Galerkin Quadrature Methods
Jim E. Morel, James S. Warsa, Brian C. Franke, Anil K. Prinja
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 2 | February 2017 | Pages 325-334
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272383
Optimization of Minor Actinide–Bearing Radial Blankets for Heterogeneous Transmutation in Fast Reactors
Timothée Kooyman, Laurent Buiron, Gérald Rimpault
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 2 | February 2017 | Pages 335-350
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272381
An Equivalent Homogenization Method for Treating the Stochastic Media
Ding She, Zhihong Liu, Lei Shi
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 2 | February 2017 | Pages 351-360
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272363
A Paradigm-Shifting Methodology for Sensitivity Analysis of Critical Multiplying Nuclear Systems
Dan G. Cacuci
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 3 | March 2017 | Pages 361-383
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272993
Adjoint-Based Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis for Density and Composition: A User’s Guide
Jeffrey A. Favorite, Zoltán Perkó, Brian C. Kiedrowski, Christopher M. Perfetti
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 3 | March 2017 | Pages 384-405
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272990
Sensitivity Analysis of Neutron Multiplicity Counting Statistics Using First-Order Perturbation Theory and Application to a Subcritical Plutonium Metal Benchmark
Sean O’Brien, John Mattingly, Dmitriy Anistratov
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 3 | March 2017 | Pages 406-425
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272988
Review of Early 21st-Century Monte Carlo Perturbation and Sensitivity Techniques for k-Eigenvalue Radiation Transport Calculations
Brian C. Kiedrowski
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 3 | March 2017 | Pages 426-444
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2017.1283153
Revisiting Boundary Perturbation Theory for Inhomogeneous Transport Problems
Jeffrey A. Favorite, Esteban Gonzalez
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 3 | March 2017 | Pages 445-459
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1277108
Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analyses of Lead Sample Reactivity Experiments at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
Cheol Ho Pyeon, Atsushi Fujimoto, Takanori Sugawara, Hiroki Iwamoto, Kenji Nishihara, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Ken Nakajima, Kazufumi Tsujimoto
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 3 | March 2017 | Pages 460-472
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272976
Sensitivity Studies and Experimental Evaluation for Optimizing Transcurium Isotope Production
Susan Hogle, Charles W. Alexander, Jonathan D. Burns, Julie G. Ezold, G. Ivan Maldonado
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 3 | March 2017 | Pages 473-483
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2016.1272973
Predictive Modeling of a Buoyancy-Operated Cooling Tower Under Saturated Conditions—I: Adjoint Sensitivity Model
Dan G. Cacuci, Federico Di Rocco
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 3 | March 2017 | Pages 484-548
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2017.1279940
Predictive Modeling of a Buoyancy-Operated Cooling Tower Under Saturated Conditions—II: Optimal Best-Estimate Results with Reduced Predicted Uncertainties
Federico Di Rocco, Dan G. Cacuci, Madalina C. Badea
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 3 | March 2017 | Pages 549-603
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2017.1279943