.. _publications: ============ Publications ============ - Benoit Forget, Sheng Xu, and Kord Smith, "Direct Doppler broadening in Monte Carlo simulations using the multipole representation," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **64**, 78--85 (2014). ``_ - Andrew Siegel, Kord Smith, Kyle Felker, Paul Romano, Benoit Forget, and Peter Beckman, "Improved cache performance in Monte Carlo transport calculations using energy banding," *Comput. Phys. Commun.* (2013). ``_ - Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, and Kord S. Smith, "Validation of OpenMC Reactor Physics Simulations with the B&W 1810 Series Benchmarks," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **109**, 1301--1304 (2013). - Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Utilizing CMFD in OpenMC to Estimate Dominance Ratio and Adjoint," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **109**, 1389-1392 (2013). - Timothy P. Burke, Brian C. Kiedrowski, and William R. Martin, "Flux and Reaction Rate Kernel Density Estimators in OpenMC," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **109**, 683-686 (2013). - Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Andrew Siegel, "On the use of tally servers in Monte Carlo simulations of light-water reactors," *Proc. Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo*, Paris, France, Oct. 27--31 (2013). - Paul K. Romano, Nicholas E. Horelik, Bryan R. Herman, Adam G. Nelson, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "OpenMC: A State-of-the-Art Monte Carlo Code for Research and Development," *Proc. Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo*, Paris, France, Oct. 27--31 (2013). - Kyle G. Felker, Andrew R. Siegel, Kord S. Smith, Paul K. Romano, and Benoit Forget, "The energy band memory server algorithm for parallel Monte Carlo calculations," *Proc. Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo*, Paris, France, Oct. 27--31 (2013). - John R. Tramm and Andrew R. Siegel, "Memory Bottlenecks and Memory Contention in Multi-Core Monte Carlo Transport Codes," *Proc. Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo*, Paris, France, Oct. 27--31 (2013). - Andrew R. Siegel, Kord Smith, Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget, and Kyle Felker, "Multi-core performance studies of a Monte Carlo neutron transport code," *Int. J. High Perform. Comput. Appl.*, **28** (1), 87--96 (2014). ``_ - Paul K. Romano, Andrew R. Siegel, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Data decomposition of Monte Carlo particle transport simulations via tally servers," *J. Comput. Phys.*, **252**, 20--36 (2013). ``_ - Paul K. Romano, Bryan R. Herman, Nicholas E. Horelik, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Andrew R. Siegel, "Progress and Status of the OpenMC Monte Carlo Code," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 5--9 (2013). - Nicholas Horelik, Bryan Herman, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Benchmark for Evaluation and Validation of Reactor Simulations," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 5--9 (2013). - Adam G. Nelson and William R. Martin, "Improved Convergence of Monte Carlo Generated Multi-Group Scattering Moments," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 5--9 (2013). - Paul K. Romano and Benoit Forget, "The OpenMC Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **51**, 274--281 (2013). ``_ - Andrew R. Siegel, Kord Smith, Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget, and Kyle Felker, "The effect of load imbalances on the performance of Monte Carlo codes in LWR analysis", *J. Comput. Phys.*, **235**, 901--911 (2013). ``_ - Paul K. Romano and Benoit Forget, "Reducing Parallel Communication in Monte Carlo Simulations via Batch Statistics," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **107**, 519--522 (2012). - Paul K. Romano and Benoit Forget, "Parallel Fission Bank Algorithms in Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations," *Nucl. Sci. Eng.*, **170**, 125--135 (2012). ``_