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Virginia Tech Nuclear Engineering Program , VT‐NEP(regional, multidisciplinary)NSEL @ VTRC, ArlingtonNuclear Science and Engineering Lab (NSEL) – Institute ofCritical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS)NEP @ VT, BlacksburgNuclear Engineering Program (NEP),Mechanical Engineering Department• Government agencies• industry• Medical centers• Universities engaged in nuclearpolicyCollege of EngineeringCollege of ScienceCollege of Veterinary‐MedicineCollege of Arts and Human SciencesCAER @ LynchburgCenter for Advanced Engineering Research (CAER) –A partnershipof State of VA, industry and UniversitiesNuclear EngineeringProgramAREVAB&WUVA, VT, VCU2
Status of VT‐NEP• 5 Core faculty• Haghighat (Particle transport methods and their application in power, medicineand security, design of non‐destructive detection and imaging systems, reactordigital I&C, severe reactor accidents )• Hin (Nuclear and Thermoelectric Materials Modeling)• Liu (Reactor Thermal Hydraulics and Safety)• Pierson (Nuclear fuel cycle, Reactor operations and instrumentation, nuclearsecurity and non‐proliferation, radiation detection)• Winfrey (Plasma physics, materials fabrication and evaluation, and fusion)• 8 Affiliate faculty [Battaglia (ME ‐ CFD), Brown (ME‐CFD/MD), Farkas (MSE‐Materials), Hendricks (MSE‐Materials), Kulkarni (ESM‐Nuclear nonproliferationand policy), Mahajan (ME‐Materials), Tafti (ME‐CFD) & Schmid(STS‐Nuclear policy)]• 1 Adjunct faculty [Turso (Northrop Grumman – Reactor Control]• NEP faculty has initiated/established multi‐disciplinary activities in differentapplications of Nuclear Science and Engineering including:power, safeguards and non‐proliferation, medicine, & policyNuclear EngineeringProgram3
Page 1: Advanced Hybrid Transport Methodolo
Page 5 and 6: • Leadership: Haghighat, Kulkarni
Page 7 and 8: What is Particle Transport Theory?D
Page 9 and 10: Deterministic - Linear Boltzmann Eq
Page 11 and 12: Monte Carlo Methods• Perform an e
Page 13 and 14: Therefore, hybrid methods are neede
Page 15 and 16: VT3G ‐Advanced Computer codes/For
Page 17 and 18: Nuclear Power• Development of adv
Page 19 and 20: Slide11Medicine• Development of a
Page 21 and 22: TITAN Code SystemTITAN is a 3‐D,
Page 23 and 24: Goal•Simulation of the SPECT (Sin
Page 25 and 26: Nuclear EngineeringProgramNCAT voxe
Page 27 and 28: Discrete ordinatesXHow to model the
Page 29 and 30: Step 2 - Selection of fictitious di
Page 31 and 32: Step 3 ‐ Sn with Fictitious Quadr
Page 33 and 34: Collimator CasesCaseAcceptanceAngle
Page 35 and 36: Maximum difference of TITAN results
Page 37 and 38: Profiles through row 33 ofprojectio
Page 39 and 40: Nuclear EngineeringProgram 39
Page 41 and 42: Further Improvement of COS1. Split
Page 43 and 44: Collimator2.1Normalized Gamma Flux7
Page 45 and 46: Comparison of serial computation ti
Page 47 and 48: To solve 3‐D, real‐world partic

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