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Publications
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Overviews
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- Paul K. Romano, Nicholas E. Horelik, Bryan R. Herman, Adam G. Nelson, Benoit
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Forget, and Kord Smith, "`OpenMC: A State-of-the-Art Monte Carlo Code for
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Research and Development <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.07.048>`_,"
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*Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **82**, 90--97 (2015).
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- Paul K. Romano, Bryan R. Herman, Nicholas E. Horelik, Benoit Forget, Kord
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Smith, and Andrew R. Siegel, "Progress and Status of the OpenMC Monte Carlo
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Code," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to
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Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 5--9 (2013).
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- Paul K. Romano and Benoit Forget, "`The OpenMC Monte Carlo Particle Transport
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Code <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2012.06.040>`_,"
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*Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **51**, 274--281 (2013).
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Benchmarking
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- Travis J. Labossiere-Hickman and Benoit Forget, "Selected VERA Core Physics
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Benchmarks in OpenMC," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **117**, 1520-1523 (2017).
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- Khurrum S. Chaudri and Sikander M. Mirza, "`Burnup dependent Monte Carlo
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neutron physics calculations of IAEA MTR benchmark
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2014.12.018>`_," *Prog. Nucl. Energy*,
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**81**, 43-52 (2015).
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- Daniel J. Kelly, Brian N. Aviles, Paul K. Romano, Bryan R. Herman,
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Nicholas E. Horelik, and Benoit Forget, "Analysis of select BEAVRS PWR
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benchmark cycle 1 results using MC21 and OpenMC," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto,
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Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3 (2014).
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- Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, Paul K. Romano, Thomas M. Sutton,
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Daniel J. Kelly, III, and Brian N. Aviles, "Analysis of tally correlations in
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large light water reactors," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3
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(2014).
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- Nicholas Horelik, Bryan Herman, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Benchmark for
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Evaluation and Validation of Reactor Simulations,"
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*Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
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Science and Engineering*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 5--9 (2013).
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- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, and Kord S. Smith, "Validation of OpenMC
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Reactor Physics Simulations with the B&W 1810 Series Benchmarks,"
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*Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **109**, 1301--1304 (2013).
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Coupling and Multi-physics
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- Miriam A. Kreher, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Single-Batch Monte Carlo
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Multiphysics Coupling," *Proc. M&C*, 1789-1797, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 25-29
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(2019).
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- Ze-Long Zhao, Yongwei Yang, and Shuang Hong, "`Application of FLUKA and OpenMC
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in coupled physics calculation of target and subcritical reactor for ADS
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<https://doi.org/10.1007/s41365-018-0539-1>`_," *Nucl. Sci. Tech.*, **30**: 10
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(2019).
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- April Novak, Paul Romano, Brycen Wendt, Ron Rahaman, Elia Merzari, Leslie
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Kerby, Cody Permann, Richard Martineau, and Rachel N. Slaybaugh, "Preliminary
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Coupling of OpenMC and Nek5000 within the MOOSE Framework," *Proc. PHYSOR*,
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Cancun, Mexico, Apr. 22-26 (2018).
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- Sterling Harper, Kord Smith, and Benoit Forget, "Faster Monte Carlo
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multiphysics using temperature derivatives," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Cancun, Mexico,
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Apr. 22-26 (2018).
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- Jun Chen, Liangzhi Cao, Chuanqi Zhao, and Zhouyu Liu, "`Development of
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Subchannel Code SUBSC for high-fidelity multi-physics coupling application
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.121>`_", *Energy Procedia*, **127**,
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264-274 (2017).
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- Tianliang Hu, Liangzhu Cao, Hongchun Wu, Xianan Du, and Mingtao He, "`Coupled
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neutronics and thermal-hydraulics simulation of molten salt reactors based on
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OpenMC/TANSY <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2017.05.002>`_,"
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*Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **109**, 260-276 (2017).
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- Matthew Ellis, Derek Gaston, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Preliminary
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Coupling of the Monte Carlo Code OpenMC and the Multiphysics Object-Oriented
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Simulation Environment for Analyzing Doppler Feedback in Monte Carlo
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Simulations <https://doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-26>`_," *Nucl. Sci. Eng.*,
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**185**, 184-193 (2017).
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- Matthew Ellis, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Derek Gaston, "Continuous
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Temperature Representation in Coupled OpenMC/MOOSE Simulations," *Proc. PHYSOR
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2016*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 1-5, 2016.
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- Antonios G. Mylonakis, Melpomeni Varvayanni, and Nicolas Catsaros,
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"`Investigating a Matrix-free, Newton-based, Neutron-Monte
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Carlo/Thermal-Hydraulic Coupling Scheme
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<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282001032>`_",
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*Proc. Int. Conf. Nuclear Energy for New Europe*, Portoroz, Slovenia, Sep
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.14-17 (2015).
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- Matt Ellis, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Derek Gaston, "Preliminary coupling
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of the Monte Carlo code OpenMC and the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation
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Environment (MOOSE) for analyzing Doppler feedback in Monte Carlo
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simulations," *Proc. Joint Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*, Nashville, Tennessee,
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Apr. 19--23 (2015).
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- Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Progress toward Monte
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Carlo-thermal hydraulic coupling using low-order nonlinear diffusion
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acceleration methods <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.10.029>`_,"
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*Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **84**, 63-72 (2015).
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- Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Utilizing CMFD in OpenMC to
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Estimate Dominance Ratio and Adjoint," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **109**,
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1389-1392 (2013).
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Geometry and Visualization
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- Patrick C. Shriwise, Xiaokang Zhang, and Andrew Davis, "DAG-OpenMC: CAD-Based
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Geometry in OpenMC", *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **122**, 395-398 (2020).
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- Sterling Harper, Paul Romano, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Efficient
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dynamic threadsafe neighbor lists for Monte Carlo ray tracing," *Proc. M&C*,
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918-926, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 25-29 (2019).
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- Jin-Yang Li, Long Gu, Hu-Shan Xu, Nadezha Korepanova, Rui Yu, Yan-Lei Zhu, and
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Chang-Ping Qin, "`CAD modeling study on FLUKA and OpenMC for accelerator
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driven system simulation <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2017.12.050>`_",
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*Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **114**, 329-341 (2018).
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- Logan Abel, William Boyd, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Interactive
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Visualization of Multi-Group Cross Sections on High-Fidelity Spatial Meshes,"
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*Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **114**, 391-394 (2016).
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- Derek M. Lax, "`Memory efficient indexing algorithm for physical properties in
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OpenMC <https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/97862>`_," S. M. Thesis,
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015).
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- Derek Lax, William Boyd, Nicholas Horelik, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "A
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memory efficient algorithm for classifying unique regions in constructive
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solid geometries," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3 (2014).
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Miscellaneous
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- Shikhar Kumar, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Stationarity Diagnostic using
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Functional Expansion Tallies
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107388>`_", *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
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**143**, 107388 (2020).
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- T. Eade, B. Colling, J. Naish, L. W. Packer, and A. Valentine, "`Shutdown dose
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rate benchmarking using modern particle transport codes
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<https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ab8181>`_, *Nucl. Fusion*, **60**, 056024
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(2020).
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- Jiankai Yu, Qiudong Wang, Ding She, and Benoit Forget, "Modelling of the
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HTR-PM Pebble-bed Reactor using OpenMC", *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **122**,
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643-646 (2020).
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- Sharif Abu Darda, Abdelfattah Y. Soliman, Mohammed S. Aljohani, and Ned Xoubi,
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"`Technical feasibility study of BAEC TRIGA reactor (BTRR) as a neutron source
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for BNCT using OpenMC Monte Carlo code
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2020.103418>`_", *Prog. Nucl. Energy*,
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**126**, 103418 (2020).
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- Stefano Segantin, Raffaella Testoni, and Massimo Zucchetti, "`ARC reactor --
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Neutron irradiation analysis <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2020.111792>`_",
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*Fus. Eng. Design*, **159**, 111792 (2020).
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- Muhammad Ilham, Helen Raflis, and Zaki Suud, "`Full Core Optimization of Small
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Modular Gas-Cooled Fast Reactors Using OpenMC Program Code
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<https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1493/1/012007>`_", *J. Phys.: Conf. Series*,
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**1493**, 012007 (2020).
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- Ned Xoubi, Sharif Abu Darda, Abdelfattah Y. Soliman, and Tareq Abulfaraj,
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"`An investigative study of enrichment reduction impact on the neutron flux in
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the in-core flux-trap facility of MTR research reactors
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2019.08.008>`_", *Nucl. Eng. Technol.*, **52**,
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469-476 (2020).
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- J. Rolando Granada, J. Ignacio Marquez Damian, and Christian Helman, "`Studies
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on Reflector Materials for Cold Neutrons
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<https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023104002>`_, *Eur. Phys. J. Web Conf.*,
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**231**, 04002 (2020).
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- Govatsa Acharya, "`Investigating the Application of Self-Actuated Passive
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Shutdown System in a Small Lead-Cooled Reactor
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<https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.26088.01281>`_," M.S. Thesis, KTH Royal
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Institute of Technology (2019).
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- Ilham Variansyah, Benjamin R. Betzler, and William R. Martin,
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"α-weighted transition rate matrix method", *Proc. M&C*, 1368-1377, Portland,
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Oregon, Aug. 25-29 (2019).
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- Shikhar Kumar, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Analysis of fission source
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convergence for a 3-D SMR core using functional expansion tallies," *Proc.
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M&C*, 937-947, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 25-29 (2019).
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- Faisal Qayyum, Muhammad R. Ali, Awais Zahur, and R. Khan, "`Improvements in
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methodology to determine feedback reactivity coefficients
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<https://doi.org/10.1007/s41365-019-0588-0>`_," *Nucl. Sci. Tech.*, **30**: 63
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(2019).
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- M. Sajjad, Muhammad Rizwan Ali, M. Naveed Ashraf, Rustam Khan, Tasneem Fatima,
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"`KANUPP Reactor Core Model and its Validation
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<https://doi.org/10.1109/PGSRET.2018.8685948>`_," International Conference on
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Power Generation Systems and Renewable Energy Technologies, Islamabad,
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Pakistan, Sep. 10-12 (2018).
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- Muhammad Waqas Tariq, Muhammad Sohail, and Sikander Majid Mirza, "`Calculation
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of Neutronic Parameters using OpenMC for Potential Dispersed Fuels of MNSR
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<https://doi.org/10.1109/PGSRET.2018.8685927>`_," International Conference on
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Power Generation Systems and Renewable Energy Technologies, Islamabad,
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Pakistan, Sep. 10-12 (2018).
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- Amanda L. Lund and Paul K. Romano, "`Implementation and Validation of Photon
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Transport in OpenMC <https://doi.org/10.2172/1490825>`_", Argonne National
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Laboratory, Technical Report ANL/MCS-TM-381 (2018).
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- Bruno Merk, Dzianis Litskevich, R. Gregg, and A. R. Mount, "`Demand driven
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salt clean-up in a molten salt fast reactor -- Defining a priority list
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<https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192020>`_", *PLOS One*, **13**,
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e0192020 (2018).
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- Adam G. Nelson, Samuel Shaner, William Boyd, and Paul K. Romano,
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"Incorporation of a Multigroup Transport Capability in the OpenMC Monte Carlo
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Particle Transport Code," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **117**, 679-681 (2017).
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- Youqi Zheng, Yunlong Xiao, and Hongchun Wu, "`Application of the virtual
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density theory in fast reactor analysis based on the neutron transport
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calculation <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2017.05.020>`_,"
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*Nucl. Eng. Des.*, **320**, 200-206 (2017).
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- Amanda L. Lund, Paul K. Romano, and Andrew R. Siegel, "Accelerating Source
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Convergence in Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations Using a Particle Ramp-Up
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Technique," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to
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Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.
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- Antonios G. Mylonakis, M. Varvayanni, D.G.E. Grigoriadis, and N. Catsaros,
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"Developing and investigating a pure Monte-Carlo module for transient neutron
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transport analysis," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **104**, 103-112 (2017).
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- Timothy P. Burke, Brian C. Kiedrowski, William R. Martin, and
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Forrest B. Brown, "GPU Acceleration of Kernel Density Estimators in Monte
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Carlo Neutron Transport Simulations," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **115**,
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531-534 (2016).
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- Timothy P. Burke, Brian C. Kiedrowski, and William R. Martin, "Cylindrical
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Kernel Density Estimators for Monte Carlo Neutron Transport Reactor Physics
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Problems," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **115**, 563-566 (2016).
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- Yunzhao Li, Qingming He, Liangzhi Cao, Hongchun Wu, and Tiejun Zu, "`Resonance
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Elastic Scattering and Interference Effects Treatments in Subgroup Method
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2015.12.015>`_," *Nucl. Eng. Tech.*, **48**,
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339-350 (2016).
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- William Boyd, Sterling Harper, and Paul K. Romano, "Equipping OpenMC for the
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big data era," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 1-5, 2016.
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- Michal Kostal, Vojtech Rypar, Jan Milcak, Vlastimil Juricek, Evzen Losa,
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Benoit Forget, and Sterling Harper, "`Study of graphite reactivity worth on
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well-defined cores assembled on LR-0 reactor
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2015.10.010>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
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**87**, 601-611 (2016).
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- Qicang Shen, William Boyd, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "Tally precision
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triggers for the OpenMC Monte Carlo code," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **112**,
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637-640 (2015).
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- Kyungkwan Noh and Deokjung Lee, "Whole Core Analysis using OpenMC Monte Carlo
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Code," *Trans. Kor. Nucl. Soc. Autumn Meeting*, Gyeongju, Korea,
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Oct. 24-25, 2013.
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- Timothy P. Burke, Brian C. Kiedrowski, and William R. Martin, "Flux and
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Reaction Rate Kernel Density Estimators in OpenMC," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*,
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**109**, 683-686 (2013).
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Multigroup Cross Section Generation
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- Ilham Variansyah, Benjamin R. Betzler, and William R. Martin, "`Multigroup
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Constant Calculation with Static α-Eigenvalue Monte Carlo for
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Time-Dependent Neutron Transport Simulation
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<https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1743578>`_", *Nucl. Sci. Eng.*, 2020.
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- Chenghui Wan, Tianliang Hu, and Liangzhi Cao, "`Multi-physics numerical
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analysis of the fuel-addition transients in the liquid-fuel molten salt reactor
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107514>`_", *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
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**144**, 107514 (2020).
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- William Boyd, Adam Nelson, Paul K. Romano, Samuel Shaner, Benoit Forget, and
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Kord Smith, "`Multigroup Cross-Section Generation with the OpenMC Monte Carlo
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Particle Transport Code <https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1571828>`_,"
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*Nucl. Technol.*, **205**, 928-944 (2019).
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- William Boyd, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`A single-step framework to
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generate spatially self-shielded multi-group cross sections from Monte Carlo
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transport simulations <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2018.11.017>`_,"
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*Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **125**, 261-271 (2019).
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- Kun Zhuang, Xiaobin Tang, and Liangzhi Cao, "`Development and verification of
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a model for generation of MSFR few-group homogenized cross-sections based on a
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Monte Carlo code OpenMC <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2018.09.037>`_,"
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*Ann. Nucl. Energy*, **124**, 187-197 (2019).
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- Changho Lee and Yeon Sang Jung, "Verification of the Cross Section Library
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Generated Using OpenMC and MC\ :sup:`2`-3 for PROTEUS," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Cancun,
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Mexico, Apr. 22-26 (2018).
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- Zhaoyuan Liu, Kord Smith, Benoit Forget, and Javier Ortensi, "`Cumulative
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migration method for computing rigorous diffusion coefficients and transport
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cross sections from Monte Carlo
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2017.10.039>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
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**112**, 507-516 (2018).
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- Gang Yang, Tongkyu Park, and Won Sik Yang, "Effects of Fuel Salt Velocity
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Field on Neutronics Performances in Molten Salt Reactors with Open Flow
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Channels," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **117**, 1339-1342 (2017).
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- William Boyd, Nathan Gibson, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`An analysis of
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condensation errors in multi-group cross section generation for fine-mesh
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neutron transport calculations
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<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2017.09.052>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
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**112**, 267-276 (2018).
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- Hong Shuang, Yang Yongwei, Zhang Lu, and Gao Yucui, "`Fabrication and
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validation of multigroup cross section library based on the OpenMC code
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<https://doi.org/10.11889/j.0253-3219.2017.hjs.40.040502>`_,"
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*Nucl. Techniques* **40** (4), 040504 (2017). (in Mandarin)
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- Nicholas E. Stauff, Changho Lee, Paul K. Romano, and Taek K. Kim,
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"Verification of Mixed Stochastic/Deterministic Approach for Fast and Thermal
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Reactor Analysis," *Proc. ICAPP*, Fukui and Kyoto, Japan, Apr. 24-28, 2017.
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- Zhauyuan Liu, Kord Smith, and Benoit Forget, "Progress of Cumulative Migration
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Method for Computing Diffusion Coefficients with OpenMC,"
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*Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
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Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.
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- Geoffrey Gunow, Samuel Shaner, William Boyd, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith,
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"Accuracy and Performance of 3D MOC for Full-Core PWR Problems,"
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*Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
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Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.
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- Tianliang Hu, Liangzhi Cao, Hongchun Wu, and Kun Zhuang, "A coupled neutronics
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and thermal-hydraulic modeling approach to the steady-state and dynamic
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behavior of MSRs," *Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods
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Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.
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- William R. D. Boyd, "Reactor Agnostic Multi-Group Cross Section Generation for
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Fine-Mesh Deterministic Neutron Transport Simulations," Ph.D. Thesis,
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017).
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- Zhaoyuan Liu, Kord Smith, and Benoit Forget, "A Cumulative Migration Method
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for Computing Rigorous Transport Cross Sections and Diffusion Coefficients for
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LWR Lattices with Monte Carlo," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May
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1-5, 2016.
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- Adam G. Nelson and William R. Martin, "Improved Monte Carlo tallying of
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multi-group scattering moments using the NDPP code," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*,
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**113**, 645-648 (2015)
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- Adam G. Nelson and William R. Martin, "Improved Monte Carlo tallying of
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multi-group scattering moment matrices," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **110**,
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217-220 (2014).
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||
- 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).
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------
|
||
Doppler Broadening
|
||
------------------
|
||
|
||
- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith, and Forrest B. Brown,
|
||
"`On-the-fly Doppler broadening of unresolved resonance region cross sections
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2017.05.032>`_," *Prog. Nucl. Energy*,
|
||
**101**, 444-460 (2017).
|
||
|
||
- Colin Josey, Pablo Ducru, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Windowed multipole
|
||
for cross section Doppler broadening
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2015.08.013>`_," *J. Comput. Phys.*, **307**,
|
||
715-727 (2016).
|
||
|
||
- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith, and Forrest B. Brown,
|
||
"On-the-fly Doppler Broadening of Unresolved Resonance Region Cross Sections
|
||
via Probability Band Interpolation," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May
|
||
1-5, 2016.
|
||
|
||
- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith, Brian C. Kiedrowski, and
|
||
Forrest B. Brown, "`Direct, on-the-fly calculation of unresolved resonance
|
||
region cross sections in Monte Carlo simulations
|
||
<https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/108644>`_," *Proc. Joint Int. Conf.
|
||
M&C+SNA+MC*,
|
||
Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).
|
||
|
||
- Colin Josey, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Windowed multipole sensitivity
|
||
to target accuracy of the optimization procedure
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2015.1035353>`_,"
|
||
*J. Nucl. Sci. Technol.*, **52**, 987-992 (2015).
|
||
|
||
- Paul K. Romano and Timothy H. Trumbull, "`Comparison of algorithms for Doppler
|
||
broadening pointwise tabulated cross sections
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.046>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
|
||
**75**, 358--364 (2015).
|
||
|
||
- Tuomas Viitanen, Jaakko Leppanen, and Benoit Forget, "Target motion sampling
|
||
temperature treatment technique with track-length esimators in OpenMC --
|
||
Preliminary results," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3 (2014).
|
||
|
||
- Benoit Forget, Sheng Xu, and Kord Smith, "`Direct Doppler broadening in Monte
|
||
Carlo simulations using the multipole representation
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2013.09.043>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
|
||
**64**, 78--85 (2014).
|
||
|
||
------------
|
||
Nuclear Data
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
- Jonathan A. Walsh, "Comparison of Unresolved Resonance Region Cross Section
|
||
Formalisms in Transport Simulations," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **117**,
|
||
749-752 (2017).
|
||
|
||
- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith, and Forrest B. Brown,
|
||
"`Uncertainty in Fast Reactor-Relevant Critical Benchmark Simulations Due to
|
||
Unresolved Resonance Structure
|
||
<https://www.kns.org/files/int_paper/paper/MC2017_2017_3/P197S03-09WalshJ.pdf>`_,"
|
||
*Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
|
||
Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.
|
||
|
||
- Vivian Y. Tran, Jonathan A. Walsh, and Benoit Forget, "Treatments for Neutron
|
||
Resonance Elastic Scattering Using the Multipole Formalism in Monte Carlo
|
||
Codes," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*, **115**, 1133-1137 (2016).
|
||
|
||
- Paul K. Romano and Sterling M. Harper, "Nuclear data processing capabilities
|
||
in OpenMC", *Proc. Nuclear Data*, Sep. 11-16, 2016.
|
||
|
||
- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Froget, Kord S. Smith, and Forrest B. Brown,
|
||
"`Neutron Cross Section Processing Methods for Improved Integral Benchmarking
|
||
of Unresolved Resonance Region Evaluations
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611106001>`_," *Eur. Phys. J. Web Conf.*
|
||
**111**, 06001 (2016).
|
||
|
||
- Jonathan A. Walsh, Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget, and Kord S. Smith,
|
||
"`Optimizations of the energy grid search algorithm in continuous-energy Monte
|
||
Carlo particle transport codes
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2015.05.025>`_", *Comput. Phys. Commun.*,
|
||
**196**, 134-142 (2015).
|
||
|
||
- Amanda L. Lund, Andrew R. Siegel, Benoit Forget, Colin Josey, and
|
||
Paul K. Romano, "Using fractional cascading to accelerate cross section
|
||
lookups in Monte Carlo particle transport calculations," *Proc. Joint
|
||
Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*, Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).
|
||
|
||
- Ronald O. Rahaman, Andrew R. Siegel, and Paul K. Romano, "Monte Carlo
|
||
performance analysis for varying cross section parameter regimes,"
|
||
*Proc. Joint Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*, Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).
|
||
|
||
- Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, and Kord S. Smith, "`Accelerated sampling of
|
||
the free gas resonance elastic scattering kernel
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.01.017>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
|
||
**69**, 116--124 (2014).
|
||
|
||
-----------
|
||
Parallelism
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
- Paul K. Romano and Andrew R. Siegel, "`Limits on the efficiency of event-based
|
||
algorithms for Monte Carlo neutron transport
|
||
<https://www.kns.org/files/int_paper/paper/MC2017_2017_2/P099S02-02RomanoP.pdf>`_,"
|
||
*Proc. Int. Conf. Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear
|
||
Science and Engineering*, Jeju, Korea, Apr. 16-20, 2017.
|
||
|
||
- Paul K. Romano, John R. Tramm, and Andrew R. Siegel, "Efficacy of hardware
|
||
threading for Monte Carlo particle transport calculations on multi- and
|
||
many-core systems," *PHYSOR 2016*, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 1-5, 2016.
|
||
|
||
- David Ozog, Allen D. Malony, and Andrew R. Siegel, "A performance analysis of
|
||
SIMD algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations of nuclear reactor cores,"
|
||
*Proc. IEEE Int. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium*, Hyderabad,
|
||
India, May 25--29 (2015).
|
||
|
||
- David Ozog, Allen D. Malony, and Andrew Siegel, "Full-core PWR transport
|
||
simulations on Xeon Phi clusters," *Proc. Joint Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*,
|
||
Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).
|
||
|
||
- Paul K. Romano, Andrew R. Siegel, and Ronald O. Rahaman, "Influence of the
|
||
memory subsystem on Monte Carlo code performance," *Proc. Joint
|
||
Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC*, Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19--23 (2015).
|
||
|
||
- Hajime Fujita, Nan Dun, Aiman Fang, Zachary A. Rubinstein, Ziming Zheng, Kamil
|
||
Iskra, Jeff Hammond, Anshu Dubey, Pavan Balaji, and Andrew A. Chien, "Using
|
||
Global View Resilience (GVR) to add Resilience to Exascale Applications,"
|
||
*Proc. Supercomputing*, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 16--21, 2014.
|
||
|
||
- Nicholas Horelik, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Andrew Siegel, "Domain
|
||
decomposition and terabyte tallies with the OpenMC Monte Carlo neutron
|
||
transport code," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto Japan, Sep. 28--Oct. 3 (2014).
|
||
|
||
- John R. Tramm, Andrew R. Siegel, Tanzima Islam, and Martin Schulz, "XSBench --
|
||
the development and verification of a performance abstraction for Monte Carlo
|
||
reactor analysis," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Kyoto, Japan, Sep 28--Oct. 3, 2014.
|
||
|
||
- Nicholas Horelik, Andrew Siegel, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Monte Carlo
|
||
domain decomposition for robust nuclear reactor analysis
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2014.10.001>`_," *Parallel Comput.*,
|
||
**40**, 646--660 (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 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2013.10.008>`_,"
|
||
*Comput. Phys. Commun.*, **185** (4), 1195--1199 (2014).
|
||
|
||
- Paul K. Romano, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Andrew Siegel, "`On the use of
|
||
tally servers in Monte Carlo simulations of light-water reactors
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201404301>`_," *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 <https://doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201404207>`_," *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
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201404208>`_," *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
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1177/1094342013492179>`_," *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
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2013.06.011>`_," *J. Comput. Phys.*, **252**,
|
||
20--36 (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 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.06.012>`_," *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 <https://doi.org/10.13182/NSE10-98>`_,"
|
||
*Nucl. Sci. Eng.*, **170**, 125--135 (2012).
|
||
|
||
---------
|
||
Depletion
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
- Binhang Zhang, XianBao Yuan, Yonghong Zhang, Haibo Tang, and Liangzhi Cao,
|
||
"`Development of a versatile depletion code AMAC
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2020.107446>`_", *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
|
||
**143**, 107446 (2020).
|
||
|
||
- Zelong Zhao, Yongwei Yang, and Qingyu Gao, "`Development and verification of
|
||
code IMPC-Depletion for nuclide depletion calculation
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2020.110616>`_", *Nucl. Eng. Des.*,
|
||
**363**, 110616 (2020).
|
||
|
||
- Kun Zhuang, Ting Li, Qian Zhang, Qinghua He, and Tengfei Zhang, "`Extended
|
||
development of a Monte Carlo code OpenMC for fuel cycle simulation of molten
|
||
salt reactor <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2019.103115>`_", *Prog. Nucl.
|
||
Energy*, **118**, 103115 (2020).
|
||
|
||
- Jose L. Salcedo-Perez, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Paul Romano, "Hybrid
|
||
tallies to improve performance in depletion Monte Carlo simulations," *Proc.
|
||
M&C*, 927-936, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 25-29 (2019).
|
||
|
||
- Zhao-Qing Liu, Ze-Long Zhao, Yong-Wei Yang, Yu-Cui Gao, Hai-Yan Meng, and
|
||
Qing-Yu Gao, "`Development and validation of depletion code system IMPC-Burnup
|
||
for ADS <https://doi.org/10.1007/s41365-019-0560-z>`_," *Nucl. Sci. Tech.*,
|
||
**30**: 44 (2019).
|
||
|
||
- Colin Josey, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`High order methods for the
|
||
integration of the Bateman equations and other problems of the form of y' =
|
||
F(y,t)y <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.08.025>`_," *J. Comput. Phys.*,
|
||
**350**, 296-313 (2017).
|
||
|
||
- Matthew S. Ellis, Colin Josey, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Spatially
|
||
Continuous Depletion Algorithm for Monte Carlo Simulations
|
||
<https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/107880>`_," *Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.*,
|
||
**115**,
|
||
1221-1224 (2016).
|
||
|
||
- Anas Gul, K. S. Chaudri, R. Khan, and M. Azeen, "`Development and verification
|
||
of LOOP: A Linkage of ORIGEN2.2 and OpenMC
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2016.09.016>`_," *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
|
||
**99**, 321--327 (2017).
|
||
|
||
- Kai Huang, Hongchun Wu, Yunzhao Li, and Liangzhi Cao, "Generalized depletion
|
||
chain simplification based of significance analysis," *Proc. PHYSOR*, Sun
|
||
Valley, Idaho, May 1-5, 2016.
|
||
|
||
--------------------
|
||
Sensitivity Analysis
|
||
--------------------
|
||
|
||
- Abdulla Alhajri and Benoit Forget, "Eigenvalue Sensitivity in Monte Carlo
|
||
Simulations to Nuclear Data Parameters using the Multipole Formalism," *Proc.
|
||
M&C*, 1895-1906, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 25-29 (2019).
|
||
|
||
- Xingjie Peng, Jingang Liang, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, "`Calculation of
|
||
adjoint-weighted reactor kinetics parameters in OpenMC
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2019.01.007>`_", *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
|
||
**128**, 231-235 (2019).
|
||
|
||
- Zeyun Wu, Jingang Liang, Xingjie Peng, and Hany S. Abdel-Khalik, "`GPT-Free
|
||
Sensitivity Analysis for Monte Carlo Models
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2018.1556062>`_", *Nucl. Technol.* (2019).
|
||
|
||
- Xingjie Peng, Jingang Liang, Abdulla Alhajri, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith,
|
||
"`Development of continuous-energy sensitivity analysis capability in OpenMC
|
||
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2017.06.061>`_", *Ann. Nucl. Energy*,
|
||
**110**, 362-383 (2017).
|