Mathematics and Computations, Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo International Conference
(M&C+SNA+MC 2015)
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
19-23 April 2015
Volume 1 of 4
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VOLUME 1
MONTE CARLO METHODS
Application of a Discretized Phase Space Approach to the Analysis of Monte Carlo Uncertainties ...... 1 Thomas M. Sutton
Estimating the Effective Neutron Generation Time with Monte Carlo Correlated Sampling...... 18 David P. Griesheimer, Thomas P. Goter
New Algorithm for Monte Carlo Particle-Transport Simulation to Recover Event-by-Event Kinematic Correlations Of Reactions Emitting Charged Particles...... 35 T. Ogawa, T. Sato, S. Hashimoto, K. Niita
Methods and Techniques for Monte Carlo Physics Validation...... 46 Gabriela Hoff, Tullio Basaglia, Chansoo Choi, Min Cheol Han, Chan Hyeong Kim, Han Sung Kim, Sung Hun Kim, Maria Grazia Pia, Paolo Saracco, Marcia Begalli
Mean Free Path Based Kernel Density Estimators for Capturing Edge Effects in Reactor Physics Problems ...... 58 Timothy P. Burke, Brian C. Kiedrowski, William R. Martin
Kernel Density Estimation for Grey Implicit Monte Carlo Radiation Transport...... 71 A. M. Holgado, R. T. Holladay, A. B. Wollaber, M. A. Cleveland, T. J. Urbatsch, R. G. McClarren
Progress on Long Period Random Number Generator in Monte Carlo Code RMC ...... 83 Feng Yang, Jingang Liang, Kan Wang, Ganglin Yu, Ding She
Development of a Monte-Carlo Based Method for Calculating the Effect of Stationary Fluctuations ...... 93 E. E. Pettersen, C. Demaziere, K. Jareteg, T. Schonfeldt, E. Nonbol, B. Lauritzen
Real Variance Estimation of BEAVRS Benchmark in McCARD Monte Carlo Eigenvalue Calculations...... 110 Ho Jin Park, Hyun Chul Lee, Jin Young Cho, Hyung Jin Shim, Chang Hyo Kim
Accelerated Path Generation and Visualization for Numerical Integration of Feynman Path Integrals for Radiative Transfer...... 122 Paul Kilgo, Jerry Tessendorf
Relativistic Kinematics for Photoneutron Production in Monte Carlo Transport Calculations ...... 134 Edmund Caro, Paul K. Romano, Stephen C. Marin, David P. Griesheimer
Variance Reduction Applications Using Visual MCNP ...... 148 Randy Schwarz, Oyeon Kum, Angel Licea, Mauritius Hiller
Explicit Modelling of Double-Heterogeneous Pebble-Bed Reactors with the RMC Code ...... 160 Ding She, Fei Xie, Fu Li, Shichang Liu, Kan Wang
Using Fission Chain Analysis to Inform Probability of Extinction/Initiation Calculations with MCATK...... 171 Steven Nolen
Monte Carlo Performance Analysis for Varying Cross Section Parameter Regimes ...... 180 Ronald O. Rahaman, Andrew R. Siegel, Paul K. Romano
Implementation of a Least Squares Temperature Fit of the Thermal Scattering Law in MCNP6 ...... 192 Andrew T. Pavlou, Wei Ji, Forrest B. Brown
Direct, On-The-Fly Calculation of Unresolved Resonance Region Cross Sections in Monte Carlo Simulations...... 202 Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, Kord S. Smith, Brian C. Kiedrowski, Forrest B. Brown
Implicit Monte Carlo Adaptations for Tetrahedral Meshes with Node-Based Unknowns...... 217 Alex R. Long, Ryan G. McClarren, Jacob I. Waltz, John G. Wohlbier
Monte Carlo Application Toolkit (MCATK): Advances for 2015 ...... 231 Jeremy Sweezy, Steve Nolen, Terry Adams, Travis Trahan, Lori Pritchett-Sheats
Using Fractional Cascading to Accelerate Cross Section Lookups in Monte Carlo Neutron Transport Calculations ...... 242 Amanda L. Lund, Andrew R. Siegel, Benoit Forget, Colin Josey, Paul K. Romano
An Interim Strategy for the Treatment of Temperature-dependent Nuclear Data in Monte Carlo Particle Transport Codes ...... 250 Paul K. Romano, Timothy H. Trumbull, Thomas M. Sutton
Metrics for Diagnosing Undersampling in Monte Carlo Tally Estimates...... 268 Christopher M. Perfetti, Bradley T. Rearden
Momentum Deposition in Curvilinear Coordinates ...... 281 M. A. Cleveland, A. B. Wollaber, R. B. Lowrie, K. G. Thompson, G. M. Rockefeller
Correlated Sampling Monte Carlo for Critical Boron Search...... 292 Aaron M. Bevill, William R. Martin
Tracking to Nonaligned and to Distant Tori ...... 305 Kenneth A. Van Riper
Uncertainty Underprediction in Coupled Time-Dependent Monte Carlo Simulations with Serpent 2 ...... 313 Ville Valtavirta
Adjoint Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis in Monte Carlo Wielandt Calculations ...... 325 Sung Hoon Choi, Hyung Jin Shim
Stabilization Technique of Modified Power Iteration Method for Monte Carlo Simulation of Neutron Transport Eigenvalue Problem...... 334 Peng Zhang, Hyunsuk Lee, Deokjung Lee
DETERMINISTIC TRANSPORT METHODS
An Explicit, Positivity-Preserving Flux-Correct Transport Scheme for the Transport Equation Using Continuous Finite Elements ...... 347 Joshua Hansel , Jean Ragusa, Jean-Luc Guermond
Numerical and Analytical Studies of the Spectrum of Parallel Block Jacobi Iterations for Solving the Weighted Diamond Difference Form Of The SN Equations ...... 362 Yousry Y. Azmy, Dmitriy Anistratov, R. Joseph Zerr
A New Multiple Balance Method for Spatially Discretizing the SN Equations...... 374 Ben C. Yee, Edward W. Larsen
A Non-negative, Non-linear Petrov-Galerkin Method for Bilinear Discontinuous Differencing of the SN Equations...... 388 Peter G. Maginot, Jean C. Ragusa, Jim E. Morel
Theoretical Investigation of Noise Propagation in Low-Order Equation for the Scalar Flux...... 400 Anil K. Prinja
Evaluation of PWR and BWR Calculational Benchmarks from NURERG/CR-6115 Using the Transfx Nuclear Analysis Software ...... 412 B. P. Richardson
Domain Decomposition Method for 2D and 3D Transport Calculations Using Hybrid MPI/OPENMP Parallelism ...... 424 R. Lenain, E. Masiello, F. Damian, R. Sanchez
Stabilization Methods for CMFD Acceleration...... 442 M. Jarrett, B. Kelley, B. Kochunas, T. Downar, E. Larsen
A Linear Stability Analysis of the Multigroup High-Order Low-Order (HOLO) Method ...... 454 T. S. Haut, R. B. Lowrie, H. Park, R. M. Rauenzahn, A. B. Wollaber
Nonlinear Diffusion Acceleration Method with Multigrid Multiplicative Corrections For Multigroup Eigenvalue Transport Problems ...... 467 Luke R. Cornejo, Dmitriy Y. Anistratov
Techniques for Stabilizing Coarse-Mesh Finite Difference (CMFD) in Methods of Characteristics (MOC)...... 480 Lulu Li, Kord Smith, Benoit Forget
An Analytical Discrete Ordinates Solution for One-Speed Slab Geometry Adjoint Transport Problems with Isotropic Scattering ...... 494 Cassio B. Pazinatto, Solange R. Cromianski, Ricardo C. Barros, Liliane B. Barichello
A Benchmark for Assessing the Effectiveness of Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration Schemes...... 505 Richard P. Smedley-Stevenson, Andrew W. Hagues, Jozsef Kophazi
A Surface Integral Based Momentum Advection Scheme for Neutron Transport in Moving Materials...... 521 Erin D. Fichtl, Randal S. Baker, Jon A. Dahl, Jim E. Morel
Reconstruction of Neutronic Macroscopic Cross-Sections Using Tucker Decomposition ...... 534 Thi Hieu Luu, Matthieu Guillo, Pierre Guerin, Yvon Maday
Relaxation Schemes for the M1 Model with Space-Dependent Flux:Application to Radiotherapy Dose Calculation...... 547 Teddy Pichard, Martin Frank, Denise Aregba-Driollet, Stephane Brull, Bruno Dubroca
Evaluation of PWR Simulation Benchmarks Identified in U.S. NRC Regulatory Guide 1.190 Using the TRANSFX Nuclear Analysis Software...... 559 B. P. Richardson
Property Analysis on the Spatially Dependent Resonance Self-shielding Method...... 569 Hongbo Zhang, Chuntao Tang, Bo Yang, Weiyan Yang, Guangwen Bi
REACTOR PHYSICS
Variationally-Derived Discontinuity Factors for the Asymptotic, Homogenized Diffusion Equation...... 580 Travis J. Trahan, Edward W. Larsen
Considering the Up-scattering in Resonance Interference Treatment in Apollo3®...... 595 Li Mao, Richard Sanchez, Igor Zmijarevic
Doppler Coefficients Using MC2-3, MC2-2 and MCNP-XT...... 611 Zhiwen Xu, Graham Malmgren, Nick Touran, Chuck Whitmer, Changho Lee
Accuracy of a Subgroup Method for Pressurized Water Reactor Fuel Assembly Models ...... 623 Axel Canbakan, Alain Hebert, Jean-Francois Vidal
Conservative Nonlinear Diffusion Acceleration Applied to the Unweighted Least-Squares Transport Equation in MOOSE ...... 636 Jacob R. Peterson, Hans R. Hammer, Jim E. Morel, Jean C. Ragusa, Yaqi Wang
Three Dimensional Benchmark Specification Based off of the Integral Inherently Safe Light Water Reactor (I2S- LWR) Concept ...... 649 Gabriel Kooreman, Ryan Hon, Farzad Rahnema, Bojan Petrovic
VERA Core Simulator Methodology for PWR Cycle Depletion...... 660 Brendan Kochunas, Benjamin Collins, Daniel Jabaay, Shane Stimpson, Aaron Graham, Kang Seog Kim, William Wieselquist, Kevin Clarno, Scott Palmtag, Thomas Downar, Jess Gehin
Initial Verification of the High-Fidelity Neutron Transport Code PROTEUS for Heterogeneous Geometry Problems ...... 674 Emily R. Shemon, Changho Lee, Micheal A. Smith
Crane: A New Scale Super-Sequence for Neutron Transport Calculations ...... 688 Congjian Wang, Hany S. Abdel-Khalik, Ugur Mertyurek
Sensitivity of Reactor Transient Analysis on 3-D Effective Beta Core Model...... 698 S. Kalcheva, E. Koonen
Optimization of Depletion Modeling and Simulation for the High Flux Isotope Reactor...... 713 B. R. Betzler, B. J. Ade, D. Chandler, G. Ilas, E. E. Sunny
The Finite Element with Discontiguous Support Multigroup Method: Theory...... 725 Andrew T. Till, Marvin L. Adams, Jim E. Morel
The Finite Element with Discontiguous Support Multigroup Method: Application ...... 737 Andrew T. Till, Marvin L. Adams, Jim E. Morel
Fourier Convergence Analysis of Two-Node Coarse-Mesh Finite Difference Method for Two-Group Neutron Diffusion Eigenvalue Problem...... 749 Yongjin Jeong, Jinsu Park And Deokjung Lee, Hyun Chul Lee
The Stability of Boiling Water Reactors As a Catastrophe Phenomenon...... 763 I. Pazsit, V. Dykin, H. Konno, T. Kozlowski
Preparation of Pin-By-Pin Nuclear Libraries with Superhomogenization Method for Ntracer and Dort Core Calculations...... 775 P. Mala, S. Canepa, H. Ferroukhi, A. Pautz
The Library Approximation Method for the Future EDF Chain - ANDROMEDE...... 787 A. Calloo, H. Leroyer, X. Shang
NJOY Based Multigroup Cross Section Generation for Fast Reactor Analysis ...... 800 Chang Hyun Lim, Han Gyu Joo, Won Sik Yang
Analysis of Temperature Effects on Reactivity of Light Water Reactor Fuel Assemblies by Using MVP-2 Adopting an Exact Resonace Elastic Scattering Model...... 812 Toru Yamamoto, Tomohiro Sakai
VOLUME 2
A Semi-Heterogeneous Method For On-The-Fly Environmental Correction of Nodal Equivalence Parameters ...... 824 R. H. Prinsloo, O. M. Zamonsky, D. I. Tomasevic, B. Erasmus, S. A. Groenewald
Utilization of LR-0 Reactor in MSR Research...... 841 Evžen Losa, Michal Koštal, Vojtech Rypar, Martin Schulz, Bohumil Jansky´, Evžen Novak
Temperature Limited Transient Calculations For The Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) Using MCNP and the Point Kinetics Code TREKIN...... 853 Dimitrios C. Kontogeorgakos, Heather M. Connaway, Keith L. Derstine, Arthur E. Wright, Sean R. Morrell
Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin Method for a Homogenized Diffusion Equation in Reactor Simulations ...... 865 S. Gonzalez-Pintor, A. Vidal-Ferrandiz, D. Ginestar, C. Demaziere, M. Asadzadeh, G. Verdu
Neutronic Feasibility Study for Conceptual BWR Mo Fuel Cladding Assembly Designs ...... 878 Ren-Tai Chiang, Bo-Ching Cheng
Implementation of CRAM Depletion Solverwith External Feed and Improved Accuracy into ORIGEN ...... 886 A. E. Isotalo, W. A. Wieselquist
M&S FOR FUSION ENERGY SYSTEMS
An Advanced MC Modeling and Multi-Physics Coupling System for Fusion Applications...... 898 Yuefeng Qiu, Lei Lu, Ulrich Fischer
Monte Carlo Based Method for Shutdown Dose Rates Calculations: Functionality, Validation, Application ...... 910 P. Pereslavtsev, U. Fischer
Quality and Performance of a Pseudo-random Number Generator in Massively Parallel Plasma Particle Simulations...... 923 Seikichi Matsuoka, Shinsuke Satake, Yasuhiro Idomura, Toshiyuki Imamura
Accelerating Fusion Reactor Neutronics Modeling by Automatic Coupling of Hybrid Monte Carlo/Deterministic Transport on CAD Geometry ...... 936 Elliott Biondo, Ahmad M. Ibrahim, Scott W. Mosher, Robert E. Grove
Applications of Supercomputing in Fusion Neutronics of Iter Diagnostic Ports ...... 951 A. Serikov, U. Fischer, A. Suarez, R. Barnsley, L. Bertalot, R. O’Connor, R. Thenevin, V. S. Udintsev
Modelling of the Remote Handling Systems with MCNP – Jet Fusion Reactor Example Case...... 963 Luka Snoj, Igor Lengar, Aljaž Cufar, Brian Syme, Sergey Popovichev, Sean Conroy, Lewis Meredith
Monte Carlo Simulation Software SuperMC2.2 for Fusion and Fission Applications...... 975 Yican Wu, Jing Song, Liqin Hu, Pengcheng Long, Lijuan Hao, Mengyun Cheng, Tao He, Huaqing Zheng, Shengpeng Yu, Yuetong Luo, Guangyao Sun, Zhenping Chen, Bin Wu, Quan Gan, Wen Wang, Dong Wang, Peng Ge, Chaobin Chen, Jun Zou, Zihui Yang, Jinbo Zhao, Ting Li, Liu Hong, Hui Wang, Ling Fang
TRANSPORT IN STOCHASTIC MEDIA
On the Accuracy of the Non-Classical Transport Equation in 1-D Random Periodic Media ...... 988 Richard Vasques, Kai Krycki
An Improved Deterministic Method for the Solution of Stochastic Media Transport Problems ...... 1000 Shawn D. Pautz, Brian C. Franke
A Generalized Levermore-Pomraning Closure for Stochastic Media Transport Problems...... 1012 Shawn D. Pautz, Brian C. Franke
Accuracy of the Chord Length Sampling Method Near Boundaries of 1-D Finite Stochastic Materials...... 1023 C. Russell Willis, David P. Griesheimer, Erich Schneider
MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION AND SAFEGUARDS APPLICATIONS
An Effect of Capture Gammas, Photofission and Photonuclear Neutrons to the Neutron-gamma Feynman Variance-tomean Ratios (Neutron, Gamma and Total)...... 1040 Dina Chernikova, Imre Pazsit, Stephen Croft, Andrea Favalli
Spent Fuel Modeling and Simulation Using Origami for Advanced NDA Instrument Testing ...... 1052 Jianwei Hu, Ian Gauld, Andrew Worrall, Henrik Liljenfeldt, Se-Hwan Park, Anders Sjoland, In-Chan Kwon, Ho-Dong Kim
Calculation of Prompt Neutron Decay Constant with Monte Carlo Differential Operator Sampling...... 1065 Yasunobu Nagaya
Passive Neutron Interrogation for Fissile Mass Estimation in Systems with an Unknown Detection Efficiency...... 1074 C. Dubi, B. Pedersen, A. Ocherashvilli, H. Ettegui
Estimating Moments of the Neutron Chain Size Distribution in Multiplying Items ...... 1088 Nick Hengartner, Tom Burr, Stephen Croft, Mark Smith-Nelson
Evaluation of the True Coincidence Summing Effects on Uranium Enrichment Measurements Using a Monte Carlo Approach ...... 1111 A. Bosko, A. Berlizov
A Method to Determine Detector Response Functions in a Heavily Shielded Environment and Application to Spent Fuel Measurements with Cadmium Zinc Telluride Detectors ...... 1123 A. Borella, R. Rossa, K. Van Der Meer
Progress on Monte Carlo Simulations for IAEA Safeguards Verification ...... 1134 Tae Hoon Lee, Andrey Berlizov, David H. Beddingfield, Alain Lebrun
Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification of Neutron Multiplicity Statistics using Perturbation Theory...... 1146 Sean O’Brien, John Mattingly, Dmitriy Anistratov
NEXT GENERATION SN MESH SEEPS
Energy Correlations of Prompt Fission Neutrons in the Laboratory Frame ...... 1158 Imre Pazsit, Zsolt Elter
Research at AWE on the Exploitation of Many-Core Technologies for the Efficient Solution of Parallel Deterministic Transport Problems...... 1168 Richard P. Smedley-Stevenson, David J. Barrett, Wayne P. Gaudin, Andrew W. Hagues, Simon R. Merton, Iain R. Miller, David M. Turland
An SN Algorithm for Modern Architectures ...... 1178 Randal S. Baker
Three-dimensional Discrete Ordinates Reactor Assembly Calculations on GPUs ...... 1192 Thomas M. Evans, Wayne Joubert, Steven P. Hamilton, Seth R. Johnson, John A. Turner, Gregory G. Davidson, Tara M. Pandya
Parallel SN Sweeps on Adapted Meshes ...... 1206 Bruno Turcksin
Provably Optimal Parallel Transport Sweeps with Non-Contiguous Partitions...... 1218 Michael P. Adams, Marvin L. Adams, Carolyn N. McGraw, Andrew T. Till, Teresa S. Bailey
KRIPKE - A Massively Parallel Transport Mini-App...... 1237 Adam J. Kunen, Teresa S. Bailey, Peter N. Brown
Parallel Deterministic Transport Sweeps of Structured and Unstructured Meshes with Overloaded Mesh Decompositions ...... 1250 Shawn D. Pautz, Teresa S. Bailey
COMPUTATIONAL THERMAL HYDRAULICS AND FLUID DYNAMICS
Application of the Reactor System Code RELAP-7 to Single- and Two-Phase Flow Water-Hammer Problems...... 1267 Marc O. Delchini, Jean C. Ragusa, Ray A. Berry, David Andrs, Richard Martineau
PETSC-Based Parallel Semi-Implicit CFD Code Gasflow-Mpi in Application of Hydrogen Safety Analysis in Containment of Nuclear Power Plant ...... 1279 Jianjun Xiao, John R. Travis, Peter Royl, Anatoly Svishcheva, Thomas Jordana, Wolfgang Breitunga
Development and Test of a Transient Fine-Mesh LWR Mutliphysics Solver in a CFD Framework ...... 1293 Klas Jareteg, Rasmus Andersson, Christophe Demaziere
Numerical Investigation of Instabilities in the Two-Fluid Model for CFD Simulations of LWRs...... 1309 Klas Jareteg, Henrik Strom, Srdjan Sasic, Christophe Demaziere
RESPONSE METHODS FOR PARTICLE TRANSPORT MODELING AND SIMULATION
Response Matrix Solution to Discrete Ordinates Approximation of the 1D Monoenergetic Neutron Transport Equation ...... 1327 Barry D. Ganapol
An Adaptive Comet Method Solution to a Configuration of the C5G7 Benchmark Problem ...... 1339 Kyle Remley, Farzad Rahnema
A Fission Matrix Approach to Calculate Pin-wise 3-D Fission Density Distribution...... 1351 William Walters, Nathan Roskoff, Alireza Haghighat
COMPUTATIONAL METHODS USING HPC
Radiation Hydrodynamics with a High-Order, Low-Order Method ...... 1362 A. B. Wollaber, H. Park, R. B. Lowrie, R. Rauenzahn, M. A. Cleveland
High Performance Simulation for Sediment Transport on Rivers on Fukushima Area: Parallelization of 2D River Simulation Code Nays2D ...... 1375 Susumu Yamada, Akihiro Kitamura, Hiroshi Kurikami, Masahiko Machida
A Study on the Parallel, Iterative Solution of Systems of Linear Equations Appearing on Analytical Nodal Schemes for Two-dimensional Cartesian Geometry Discrete Ordinates Problems...... 1384 Rudnei Dias Da Cunha, Anderson Tres, Liliane Basso Barichello
NEXT GENERATION PARALLELISM FOR MONTE CARLO
MCNP6 Monte Carlo Code Optimization ...... 1396 Forrest Brown
Advanced Computing Architecture Challenges for the Mercury Monte Carlo Particle Transport Project ...... 1409 Patrick S. Brantley, Shawn A. Dawson, Michael Scott McKinley, Matthew J. O’Brien, David E. Stevens, Bret R. Beck, Eugene D. Brooks III, Ryan C. Bleile
High Performance Monte Carlo Computing with Tripoli : Present and Future ...... 1421 Francois-Xavier Hugot, Emeric Brun, Fausto Malvagi, Jean-Christophe Trama, Thierry Visonneau
Maximum Efficiency in Massively Parallel Execution of Monte Carlo Criticality Calculations ...... 1436 J. Eduard Hoogenboom, Aleksandar Ivanov, Victor Sanchez
Strategies and Algorithms for Hybrid Shared-Memory/Message-Passing Parallelism in Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Codes ...... 1449 David P. Griesheimer, Brian R. Nease, Peter S. Dobreff, Paul K. Romano, Daniel F. Gill
Shift: A Massively Parallel Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Package...... 1472 Tara M. Pandya, Seth R. Johnson, Gregory G. Davidson, Thomas M. Evans, Steven P. Hamilton
Influence of the Memory Subsystem on Monte Carlo Code Performance ...... 1486 Paul K. Romano, Andrew R. Siegel, Ronald O. Rahaman
Parallel Computing with Particle and Heavy Ion Transport Code System (PHITS) ...... 1498 T. Furuta, T. Sato, T. Ogawa, K. Niita, K. L. Ishikawa, S. Noda, S. Takagi, T. Maeyama, N. Fukunishi, K. Fukasaku, R. Himeno
Advancements in Monte Carlo Capabilities for SCALE 6.2 ...... 1507 B. T. Rearden, K. B. Bekar, C. Celik, C. M. Perfetti, S. W. D. Hart
Hierarchical Geometry Tree-based Method for Scoring Massive Tallies in Monte Carlo Particle Transport Calculation ...... 1520 Shu Zhang, Jing Song, Bin Wu, Lijuan Hao, Liqin Hu
VALIDATION, VERIFICATION, AND UQ
Physics-guided Coverage Mapping (PCM): A New Methodology for Model Validation...... 1530 Hany S. Abdel-Khalik, Ayman I. Hawari
Depletion Calculation and Uncertainty / Sensitivity Analysis for a Sodium-Cooled Fast Spectrum Fuel Assembly...... 1542 A. Aures, F. Bostelmann, V. Hannstein, K. Velkov, W. Zwermann, N. Guilliard, J. Lapins, W. Bernnat
Probabilistic Error Bounds for Reduced Order Modeling...... 1552 Mohammad G. Abdo, Congjian Wang, Hany S. Abdel-Khalik
Development of a Genetic Algorithm for Neutron Energy Spectrum Adjustment...... 1561 Richard M. Vega, Edward J. Parma
JSI TRIGA Fission Rate Experimental Benchmark ...... 1573 Žiga Štancar, Luka Snoj, Loic Barbot, Christophe Domergue
Modeling and Simulation of Hanford B Reactor Experiments ...... 1585 Germina Ilas, Ian Gauld, Eva Sunny, Mike Westfall, Jennifer Nguyen
Impact of Fission Yield Correlations on Burnup Problems ...... 1599 Luca Fiorito, Alexey Stankovskiy, Gert Van Den Eynde, Carlos J. Diez, Oscar Cabellos
MONTE CARLO WITH CAD AND COMPLEX GEOMETRIES
Convex-based Void Filling Method for CAD-based Monte Carlo Geometry Modeling ...... 1611 Shengpeng Yu, Mengyun Cheng, Song Jing, Pengcheng Long, Liqin Hu
Advanced Geometry Navigation Methods Without Cavity Representation for Fusion Reactors...... 1622 Bin Wu, Zhenping Chen, Jing Song, Pengcheng Long, Liqin Hu
CAD-Based Geometry Type in Serpent 2 -- Application in Fusion Neutronics ...... 1635 Jaakko Leppanen
Preliminary Investigation of MCNP6 Unstructured Mesh Geometry for Radiation Flux Calculations Involving Space Environment ...... 1647 Kristofer Zieb, Hui Lin, Wei Ji, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu
VOLUME 3
Cad Based High Energy Particle Transport Using DAGMC Toolkit ...... 1657 Andrew Davis, Paul P. H. Wilson, Kerry T. Lee
Meteor: CAD, CSG and Woodcock Models ...... 1666 K Searson, F Fleurot, D Dewar, S Connolly, P Hulse
The CAD to MC Geometry Conversion Tool MCCAD: Recent Advancements and Applications ...... 1679 L. Lu, U. Fischer, Y. Qiu, P. Pereslavtsev
WHOLE-CORE MODELING AND SIMULATION
Analysis of BEAVRS Benchmark Problem by Using Enhanced Monte Carlo Code MVP with JENDL-4.0 ...... 1690 Motomu Suzuki, Yasushi Nauchi
® Improved Diffusion Coefficents for SPN Axial Solvers in the MPACT 2D/1D Method Applied to the AP1000 PWR Start-Up Core Models ...... 1702 Shane Stimpson, Fausto Franceschini, Benjamin Collins, Andrew Godfrey, Kang Seog Kim, Aaron Graham, Thomas Downar
Comet Whole Core Solution to an I2S-LWR Benchmark Problem...... 1717 Dingkang Zhang, Farzad Rahnema, Ryan Hon, Gabriel Kooreman, Bojan Petrovic
Analysis of the BEAVRS Benchmark Using VERA-CS...... 1729 Benjamin Collins, Andrew Godfrey
THEORETICAL TOPICS IN NEUTRON TRANSPORT THEORY
Stability of SN K-Eigenvalue Iterations using CMFD Acceleration...... 1740 Kendra P. Keady, Edward W. Larsen
A New Derivation of the Doppler-Broadened Kernel for Elastic Scattering and Application to Upscattering Analysis in the Resonance Range Of 238U ...... 1753 Richard Sanchez
An Azimuthal, Fourier Moment-Based Transverse Leakage Approximation for the MPACT 2D/1D Method ...... 1768 Shane Stimpson, Benjamin Collins, Thomas Downar
HYBRID MONTE CARLO/DETERMINISTIC TRANSPORT
Development, Verification and Test Application of a Hybrid CASMO-5/SERPENT Depletion Scheme...... 1781 O. Leray, M. Pecchia, A. Vasiliev, H. Ferroukhi, A. Pautz, H. Perrier
BWR Full Core Analysis with SERPENT/SIMULATE-3 Hybrid Stochastic/Determinstic Code Sequence...... 1794 M. Hursin, L. Rossinelli, H. Ferroukhi, A. Pautz
A High-Order Low-Order Algorithm with Exponentially-Convergent Monte Carlo for Thermal Radiative Transfer ...... 1807 Simon R. Bolding, Jim E. Morel, Mathew A. Cleveland
Acceleration of Shutdown Dose Rate Monte Carlo Calculations Using the Multi-Step Cadis Hybrid Method...... 1819 Ahmad M. Ibrahim, Douglas E. Peplow, Robert E. Grove
IMPROVED MULTIGROUP CROSS SECTION GENERATION
Simple Benchmark for Evaluating Self-Shielding Models...... 1832 Nathan A. Gibson, Kord Smith, Benoit Forget
An Asymptotic Scaling Factor for Multigroup Cross Sections ...... 1851 Thomas G. Saller, Edward W. Larsen, Thomas Downar
Multi Group Geometrical Correction for Coupled Monte Carlo Codes: Multi-Regional Thermal System...... 1863 D. Kotlyar, E. Shwageraus, E. Fridman
Development of a New 47-Group Library for the CASL Neutronics Simulators ...... 1875 Kang Seog Kim, Mark L. Williams, Dorothea Wiarda, Andrew T. Godfrey
Generation of A Cross Section Libary Applicatble to Various Reactor Types ...... 1888 Changho Lee
Automatically Optimized Collapsed Neutron Energy Group Structure using Particle Swarm Optimization...... 1902 Christopher A. Edgar, Ce Yi, Glenn Sjoden
Coupled Fine-group Three-dimensional Flux Calculation and Subgroups Method for a Fbr Hexagonal Assembly with the Apollo3® Core Physics Analysis Code...... 1912 D. Sciannandrone, S. Santandrea, R. Sanchez, L. Lei-Mao, J. F. Vidal, J. M. Palau, P. Archier
MONTE CARLO CRITICALITY CALCULATIONS WITH THERMAL-HYDRAULIC FEEDBACK
Numerical Methods in Coupled Monte Carlo and Thermal-Hydraulic Calculations ...... 1926 Daniel F. Gill, David P. Griesheimer, David L. Aumiller
Development and Testing of a Coupled MCNP6/CTF Code ...... 1943 A. Bennett, K. Ivanov, M. Avramova
Monte Carlo Full Core Neutronics Analysis with De-Tailed Consideration of Thermal-Hydraulic Parameters...... 1953 W. Bernnat, N. Guilliard, J. Lapins, A. Aures, I. Pasichnyk, Y. Perin, K. Velkov, W. Zwermann
Towards the Development of Coupled Monte Carlo / Subchannel Thermal Hydraulic Codes for High-Fidelity Simulation of LWR Full Cores ...... 1968 V. Sanchez, A. Ivanov, J. E. Hoogenboom
Variance Reduction in High Resolution Coupled Monte Carlo - Thermal Hydraulics Calculations...... 1981 A. Ivanov, V. Sanchez
Serpent--OpenFOAM Coupling in Transient Mode: of a Godiva Prompt Critical Burst...... 1995 Manuele Aufiero, Carlo Fiorina, Axel Laureau, Pablo Rubiolo, Ville Valtavirta
Preliminary Coupling of the Monte Carlo code OpenMC and the Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) for Analyzing Doppler Feedback in Monte Carlo Simulations ...... 2007 Matthew Ellis, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, Derek Gaston
HPC AND ALGORITHMS FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURES
Performance Model Development and Analysis for the 3-D Method of Characteristics ...... 2023 Brendan Kochunas, Thomas Downar
Optimizing the Monte Carlo Neutron Cross-section Construction Code, XSBENCH, to MIC and GPU Platforms...... 2038 Tianyu Liu, Noah Wolfe, Christopher D. Carothers, Wei Ji, X. George Xu
SimpleMOC - A Performance Abstraction for 3D MOC ...... 2052 Geoffrey Gunow, John Tramm, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, Tim He
Intel Xeon/Xeon Phi Platform Oriented Scalable Monte Carlo Linear Solver ...... 2066 Fan Ye, Christophe Calvin, Serge Petiton
COMPUTATIONAL MEDICAL PHYSICS
AcurosCTS: A Scatter Prediction Algorithm for Cone-Beam Tomography...... 2078 Alexander Maslowski, Mingshan Sun, Adam Wang, Ian Davis, Todd Wareing, Josh-Star-Lack, John McGhee, Greg Failla, Allen Barnett
Development of a Whole-body Tetrahedral Mesh Human Phantom for Radiation Dose Calculations Using New MCNP 6.1 Geometrical Features...... 2093 Hui Lin, Kristofer Zieb, Yiming Gao, Wei Ji, Peter F. Caracappa, X. George Xu
Acceleration of Geant4-DNA Physics Models Performance Using Graphics Processing Unit...... 2105 Shogo Okada, Koichi Murakami, Katsuya Amako, Takashi Sasaki, Sebastien Incerti, Mathieu Karamitros, Nick Henderson, Margot Gerritsen, Makoto Asai, Andrea Dotti
Absorbed Dose Estimation for Computed Tomography by Method of Characteristics Deterministic Simulation...... 2117 Edward T. Norris, Xin Liu, Dean B. Jones, Kenneth E. Watkins
Monte Carlo Validation of Proton Treatment Plans using Geant4 on Xeon Phi ...... 2129 Andrew Green, Hywel Owen, Andrea Dotti, Makoto Asai, Adam Aitkenhead, Ranald Mackay
Monte Carlo Calculations of Secondary Neutron Doses in Adult Male Patients During the Carbon Ion Radiotherapy...... 2138 Hongdong Liu, Zhi Chen, Xg Xu, Qiang Li, Tingyan Fu
Radiation Protection and Dosimetry Assessment of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) Using Monte Carlo Simulations and Modeling ...... 2152 Mariana Baptista, Salvatore Di Maria, Pimenio Ferreira, Pedro Vaz
ADVANCED ANGULAR DISCRETIZATIONS FOR THE TRANSPORT EQUATION
Implicit Filtered PN Method in Cylindrical Coordinates for Thermal Radiation Transport ...... 2166 Vincent M. Laboure, Ryan G. McClarren, Cory D. Hauck
Spherical Harmonics (PN) Methods in the Sceptre Radiation Transport Code ...... 2184 Clif Drumm
Discrete-Ordinates Quadratures Based on Linear and Quadratic Discontinuous Finite Elements Over Spherical Quadrilaterals ...... 2197 Cheuk Y. Lau, Marvin L. Adams
SENSITIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS
Quantifying Nuclear Data Uncertainty in nTRACER Simulation Results with the XSUSA Method...... 2213 Matias Zilly, Kiril Velkov, Winfried Zwermann, Yeon Sang Jung, Han Gyu Joo
Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis in Criticality Calculations with Perturbation Theory and Sampling ...... 2225 Friederike Bostelmann, Frank-Peter Weis, Alexander Aures, Kiril Velkov, Winfried Zwermann, Bradley T. Rearden, Matthew A. Jessee, Mark L. Williams, Dorothea Wiarda, William A. Wieselquist
Sampling-Based Nuclear Data Uncertainty Analysis in Criticality and Depletion Calculations ...... 2237 Friederike Bostelmann, Winfried Zwermann, Bernard Krzykacz-Hausmann, Lucia Gallner, Alexander Aures, Kiril Velkov
On Variable Selection and Effective Estimations of Interactive and Quadratic Sensitivity Coefficients: A Collection of Regularized Regression Techniques ...... 2249 Weixiong Zheng, Ryan G. McClarren
Construction Of A Response Surface For A Reactor-Like Problem With Realistic Cross Section Uncertainties...... 2270 Don E. Bruss, Ryan G. McClarren, Marvin L. Adams, Jim E. Morel
Monte Carlo Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis With Continuous-Energy Nuclear Covariance Data ...... 2287 Dong Hyuk Lee, Hyung Jin Shim, Chang Hyo Kim
A Model for Fission Yield Uncertainty Propagation Based on the URANIE Platform...... 2297 N. Terranova, M. Sumini, P. Archier, O. Serot, D. Bernard, C. De Saint Jean
MULTIPHYSICS AND TRANSIENT ANALYSIS
Crud and Boron Layer Modeling Requirements using MOC Neutron Transport...... 2309 Daniel J. Walter, Annalisa Manera
Design of a High Fidelity Core Simulator for Analysis of Pellet-Clad Interaction...... 2321 R. Pawlowski, K. Clarno, R. Montgomery, R. Salko, T. Evans, J. Turner, D. Gaston
Evaluation of Accident Tolerant FeCrAl Coating for PWR Cladding under Normal Operating Conditions with Coupled Neutron Transport and Fuel Performance ...... 2334 Michael Rose, Thomas J. Downar, Xu Wu, Tomasz Kozlowski
High Fidelity Modeling of Pellet-Clad Interaction Using the CASL Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications...... 2345 K. T. Clarno, R. P. Pawlowski, R. O. Montgomery, T. M. Evans, B. S. Collins, B. Kochunas, D. Gaston, J. A. Turner
Transient Methods For Pin-Resolved Whole Core Transport Using The 2D-1D Methodology In MPACT...... 2360 Ang Zhu, Yunlin Xu, Aaron Graham, Mitchell Young, Thomas Downar, Liangzhi Cao
COBRA-TF Parallelization and Application to PWR Reactor Core Subchannel DNB Analysis ...... 2376 Vefa Kucukboyaci, Yixing Sung, Robert Salko
Assessment of Thermal Hydraulic Feedbacks Effects during Modeling of a RIA using Direct Whole Core Transport Solution ...... 2394 M. Hursin, H. G. Joo, T. J. Downar
Modelling of Stationary Fluctuations in Nuclear Reactor Cores in the Frequency Domain...... 2406 C. Demaziere, V. Dykin, A. Hernandez-Solis, V. Boman
Solving the Time-Dependent Neutron Diffusion Equation Using Moving Meshes ...... 2420 A. Vidal-Ferrandiz, R. Fayez, G. Verdu, D. Ginestar
Efficient, Three-Temperature, Thermal Radiative Transfer Solution via a High-Order, Low-Order Method...... 2434 H. Park, A. B. Wollaber, R. M. Rauenzahn, D. A. Knoll
The Implementation and Analysis of the MOC And CMFD Adjoint Capabilities in the 2D-1D Code MPACT...... 2447 Ang Zhu, Yunlin Xu, Thomas Saller, Thomas Downar
RADIATION TRANSPORT AND SHIELDING METHODS
Development and Verification of Neutron-Photon Coupling transport and Parallelization in RMC Code ...... 2459 Xiao Fan, Guohui Zhang, Jingang Liang, Kan Wang
Impact of Inflow Transport Approximation on Reactor Analysis...... 2468 Sooyoung Choi, Deokjung Lee, Kord Smith
VOLUME 4
How to Use the Receiver Operating Characteristic Tally Option in MCNP6 ...... 2487 Garrett E. McMath, Trevor A. Wilcox, Gregg W. McKinney
Topographic Effects on Ambient Dose Equivalent Rates from Radiocesium Fallout...... 2499 Alex Malins, Masahiko Okumura, Masahiko Machida, Kimiaki Saito
RADIATION DETECTION
Modernization Strategies for SCALE 6.2 ...... 2511 B. T. Rearden, R. A. Lefebvre, J. P. Lefebvre, K. T. Clarno, M. A. Williams, L. M. Petrie, U. Mertyurek, B. R. Langley, A. B. Thompson
A Monte Carlo Model of Elemental Analysis Using a Natural Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Tool...... 2524 Qiong Zhang, Freddy Mendez, John Longo, Alberto Mezzatesta, Maxim Vasilyev, Steve Bliven, Artur Safin
An Analytical Model to Evaluate Gamma-Ray Attenuation Effects in Cased Hole Logging Environment...... 2536 Qiong Zhang, Freddy Mendez, Alberto Mezzatesta, Steve Bliven, Artur Safin
ADVANCED SOLVERS IN NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY
Analysis of an Adaptive Time Step Scheme for the Transient Diffusion Equation ...... 2546 Justin M. Pounders, Joseph Boffie
Rayleigh Quotient Iteration with a Multigrid in Energy Preconditioner for Massively Parallel Neutron Transport...... 2563 R. N. Slaybaugh, T. M. Evans, G. G. Davidson, P. P. H. Wilson
A Modified Moving Least Square Algorithm for Solution Transfer on a Spacer Grid Surface ...... 2577 Stuart R. Slattery, Steven P. Hamilton, Thomas M. Evans
Analysis of Anderson Acceleration on a Simplified Neutronics/Thermal Hydraulics System ...... 2589 A. Toth, C. T Kelley, S. Slattery, S. Hamilton, K. Clarno, R. Pawlowski
ACCELERATORS AND SUBCRITICAL SYSTEMS
Benefits of Multi-Level Rebalancing for Close-to-Critical Subcritical System Computations...... 2601 Rene Van Geemert
Reflector Effects on the Kinetic Response in Subcritical Systems ...... 2619 S. Dulla, M. Nervo, P. Ravetto, P. Saracco, G. Lomonaco, M. Carta
Evaluation of the Pool Critical Assembly Benchmark Using the Transfx Nuclear Analysis Software ...... 2630 V. G. Smith, B. P. Richardson
COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRIES
OpenCG: A Combinatorial Geometry Modeling Tool for Data Processing and Code Verification...... 2641 William Boyd, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith
Simplifying Workflow for Reactor Assembly and Full-Core Modeling...... 2655 Rajeev Jain, Vijay Mahadevan, Robert O’Bara
Theoretical Analysis of Track Generation in 3D Method of Characteristics ...... 2667 Samuel Shaner, Geoffrey Gunow, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND NUCLEAR DATA
VPSC Implementation in Bison-CASL Code for Modeling Large Deformation Problems...... 2682 Wenfeng Liu, Robert Montgomery, Carlos Tome, Chris Stanek, Jason Hales
Research on Resonance Parameters Evaluation based on R-Matrix Limited Formula and Code Development ...... 2694 Jiankai Yu, Wanlin Li, Ganglin Yu, Kan Wang
Implementation of the Generalized Interaction Data Interface (GIDI) in the Mercury Monte Carlo Code...... 2706 M. S. McKinley, B. R. Beck
TECHNICAL POSTER SESSION
Neutronics Analyses for the SNS Second Target Station...... 2713 Igor Remec, Franz X. Gallmeier, Mark J. Rennich, Thomas J. McManamy, Wei Lu
Simulation of a Commercial Siemens PET Scanner Using the Monte Carlo-based GATE Code...... 2727 J. J. Giner-Sanz, S. Gallardo, G. Verdu, C. Torrijo
A Domain Decomposition Method in APOLLO3® Solver, Minaret ...... 2738 Nans Odry, Jean-Francois Vidal, Gerald Rimpault, Anne-Marie Baudron, Jean-Jacques Lautard
Dose Estimation for Complex Urban Environments Using RUGUD, SWORD, ADVANTG and Denovo...... 2752 Andy Li, George Lekoudis, Scott Mosher, Tom Evans, Seth Johnson
A Control Theory Approach to Adaptive Stepsize Selection for Lattice Physics Depletion Simulations ...... 2764 Daniel J. Walter, Annalisa Manera
Performance of Predictor-Corrector Algorithms in Modelling Gadolinium Burn Out...... 2776 W. Haeck, R. Ichou, L. Jutier
The SCALE 6.2 ORIGEN API for High-Performance Depletion...... 2789 W. A. Wieselquist
A Multigrid Method for the Self-Adjoint Angular Flux Equation Based on Cellwise Block Jacobi Iteration...... 2800 Jeffery D. Densmore, Daniel F. Gill, Justin M. Pounders
Scalability Benchmarking Methodology for Hybrid Parallel Core Calculations with the Code nTRACER ...... 2819 S. Canepa, M. Krack, H. Ferroukhi, A. Pautz
Fourier Analysis of a Nonlinear Two-Grid Method for Multigroup Neutron Diffusion Problems ...... 2832 Dmitriy Y. Anistratov, Luke R. Cornejo, Jesse P. Jones
Non-Linear Iterative Method for Radiative Transfer Problems ...... 2847 Anthony P. Barbu, Marvin L. Adams
Current Coupling Collision Probability Method with Orthonormal Flux Expansion for Unstructured Geometries...... 2867 Dzianis Litskevich, Bruno Merk
Convergence Study of Rattlesnake Solutions for the Two-Dimensional C5G7 MOX Benchmark...... 2881 Yaqi Wang, Mark D. Dehart, Derek R. Gaston, Frederic N. Gleicher, Richard C. Martineau, Javier Ortensi, John W. Peterson, Sebastian Schunert
Preserving Positivity of Solutions to the Diffusion Equation for Higher-Order Finite Elements in Under Resolved Regions...... 2893 Thomas A. Brunner
Evaluation of the RACER Monte Carlo Fuel Depletion Benchmark Using TRANSLAT Version 2.10 ...... 2902 Dean B. Jones
Full-Core PWR Transport Simulations on Xeon Phi Clusters ...... 2915 David Ozog, Allen D. Malony, Andrew Siegel
Status of ARCHER --- A Monte Carlo Code for the High-Performance Heterogeneous Platforms Involving GPU and MIC...... 2927 Tianyu Liu, Noah Wolfe, Christopher D. Carothers, Wei Ji, X. George Xu
Concurrent CPU, GPU and MIC Execution Algorithms for Archer Monte Carlo Code Involving Photon and Neutron Radiation Transport Problems...... 2941 Noah Wolfe, Christopher Carothers, Tianyu Liu, X. George Xu
Application of CMFD with Wielandt Method on Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Simulation for Eigenvalue Problems ...... 2953 Hyunsuk Lee, Deokjung Lee
First-Principles Calculation Studies on Cesium in Environmental Situations: Hydration Structures and Adsorption on Clay Minerals...... 2966 Masahiko Machida, Masahiko Okumura, Hiroki Nakamura, Kazuhiro Sakuramoto
Uncertainty Analysis for Non-Destructive Assay with Application to an On-Line Enrichment Monitor ...... 2978 Kenneth D. Jarman, L. Eric Smith, Richard S. Wittman, Mital A. Zalavadia, Stephen Croft, Tom Burr
The Geant4 Version 10 Series ...... 2993 Makoto Asai, Andrea Dotti, Dennis H. Wright, Gabriele Cosmo, Vladimir Ivantchenko, Albert Ribon, Laurent Garnier, Ivana Hrivnacova, Sebastien Incerti, Marc Verderi
Comparisons Of 3D Heterogeneous PWR Full-Core Transport Calculations by RMC and the SN Domino Solver From Cocagne Platform Using Multi-Group Cross-Sections...... 3005 Shichang Liu, Yishu Qiu, Kan Wang, Jingang Liang
New Features and Enhancements of Reactor Monte Carlo Code RMC ...... 3018 Kan Wang, Jingang Liang, Jiankai Yu, Xiao Fan, Yishu Qiu, Shichang Liu, Feng Yang, Xiaotong Shang, Gaochen Wu, Qicang Shen, Ouwen Yexin, Zonghuan Chen, Ganglin Yu, Qi Xu, Ding She, Zeguang Li, Songyang Li
A Volume-Dependent Fleck Factor for Added Robustness in Implicit Monte Carlo Calculations ...... 3040 Jacob T. Landman, Ryan G. McClarren penORNL: A Parallel Monte Carlo Photon and Electron Transport Package Using Penelope ...... 3054 Kursat B. Bekar, Thomas M. Miller, Bruce W. Patton, Charles F. Weber
Coupled Neutronics and Thermal-Hydraulics Transient Calculations Based on a Fission Matrix Approach: Application to the Molten Salt Fast Reactor ...... 3064 A. Laureau, M. Aufiero, P. R. Rubiolo, E. Merle-Lucotte, D. Heuer
Development of a High Order Boron Transport Scheme in TRAC-BF1...... 3076 Teresa Barrachina, Amparo Soler, Nicolas Olmo-Juan, Rafael Miro, Gumersindo Verdu, Alberto Concejal
Effects of Various Treatments of Temperature-Dependent Cross Sections on HTTR Criticality Calculations ...... 3090 Ta-Wei Lin, Rong-Jiun Sheu, Yen-Wan Hsueh Liu, Yang-Chien Tien
Neutron Flux Measurement and Calculation Behind VVER-1000 Reactor Pressure Vessel Simulator Placed in LR- 0 Reactor...... 3102 Michal Koštal, Martin Schulc, Vojtech Rypar, Marie Švadlenkova, Evžen Losa, Jan Milcak, František Cvachovec, Sergey Zaritskyi
Monte Carlo Simulation on Hard X-ray Dose Produced inInteraction Between High Intensity Laser and Solid Target...... 3113 Bo Yang, Rui Qiu, Hui Zhang, Wei Lu, Xin Wang, Zhen Wu, Junli Li
Design and Feasibility Study of a Compact Neutron Source for Extra-terrestrial Geochronology Applications...... 3125 Madicken Munk, Rachel Slaybaugh, Karl Van Bibber, Leah Morgan, Brett Davidheiser-Kroll, Darren Mark
The NESTLE 3D Nodal Core Simulator: Modern Reactor Models ...... 3139 Nicholas P. Luciano, Keith E. Ottinger, P. Eric Collins, Cole Gentry, Nathan George, A. J. Pawel, Kelly Kenner, Shane Harty, Ondrej Chvala, G. Ivan Maldonado, Filip Fejt
Accuracy of the Linear Discontinuous Galerkin Method for 3D Reactor Analysis with Resolved Fuel Pins...... 3155 Carolyn N. McGraw, Marvin L. Adams, W. Daryl Hawkins, Michael P. Adams, Timmie Smith
MCC-3/DIF3D Analysis for the ZPPR-15 Doppler and Sodium Void Worth Measurements ...... 3169 Micheal A. Smith, Richard M. Lell, Changho Lee
Continuous-Energy Monte Carlo Method for Reactor Transient Analysis Based on Quasi-Static Methods...... 3184 Yugwon Jo, Bumhee Cho, Nam Zin Cho
Feasibility of Albedo-corrected Parameterized Equivalence Constants for Nodal Equivalence Theory ...... 3198 Woosong Kim, Yonghee Kim
A Fast and Self-consistent Approach for Multi-cycle Equilibrium Core Studies Using Monte Carlo Models...... 3209 Zeyun Wu, Robert E. Williams
Coupled Neutron-Photon Two-Dimensional Whole Core Depletion Calculation using Paragon with Ultra-Fine Energy Mesh Methodology...... 3224 Mohamed Ouisloumen
Progress on Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis Function in Continuous-Energy Monte Carlo Code RMC...... 3237 Yishu Qiu, Dan Shen, Jiankai Yu, Kan Wang, Ding She
Seismic Response Analysis of Reactor Building and Equipment with Hazard Consistent Ground Motions by 3D- FE Model ...... 3252 Akemi Nishida, Ken Muramatsu, Tsuyoshi Takada
2-T and 3-T High-Energy-Density Thermal Radiative Transfer Benchmarks ...... 3263 D. A. Holladay, R. G. McClarren
Comparison Between Sample Size and Computational Uncertainty in Propagating Manufacturing Uncertainties Using Sampling Based Method and MCNPX...... 3281 Daniel Campolina, Claubia Pereira
Initial 1-D Single Phase Liquid Verification of CTF ...... 3294 Chris Dances, Maria Avramova, Vince Mousseau
Further Investigation of Error Bounds for Reduced Order Modeling ...... 3306 Mohammad Abdo, Congjian Wang, Hany S. Abdel-Khalik
Scaling of Intrusive Stochastic Collocation and Stochastic Galerkin Methods for Uncertainty Quantification in Monte Carlo Particle Transport ...... 3312 Aaron J. Olson, Brian C. Franke, Anil K. Prinja
Author Index