Publications

Overviews

  • 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,” Ann. Nucl. Energy, 82, 90–97 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.07.048
  • 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).
  • Paul K. Romano and Benoit Forget, “The OpenMC Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code,” Ann. Nucl. Energy, 51, 274–281 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2012.06.040

Benchmarking

  • Khurrum S. Chaudri and Sikander M. Mirza, “Burnup dependent Monte Carlo neutron physics calculations of IAEA MTR benchmark,” Prog. Nucl. Energy, 81, 43-52 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2014.12.018
  • Daniel J. Kelly, Brian N. Aviles, Paul K. Romano, Bryan R. Herman, Nicholas E. Horelik, and Benoit Forget, “Analysis of select BEAVRS PWR benchmark cycle 1 results using MC21 and OpenMC,” Proc. PHYSOR, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28–Oct. 3 (2014).
  • Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, Paul K. Romano, Thomas M. Sutton, Daniel J. Kelly, III, and Brian N. Aviles, “Analysis of tally correlations in large light water reactors,” Proc. PHYSOR, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28–Oct. 3 (2014).
  • 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).
  • 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).

Coupling and Multi-physics

  • Matt Ellis, Benoit Forget, Kord Smith, and Derek Gaston, “Preliminary coupling of the Monte Carlo code OpenMC and the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) for analyzing Doppler feedback in Monte Carlo simulations,” Proc. Joint Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC, Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19–23 (2015).
  • Bryan R. Herman, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, “Progress toward Monte Carlo-thermal hydraulic coupling using low-order nonlinear diffusion acceleration methods.” Ann. Nucl. Energy, 84, 63-72 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.10.029
  • 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).

Geometry

  • Derek Lax, William Boyd, Nicholas Horelik, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, “A memory efficient algorithm for classifying unique regions in constructive solid geometries,” Proc. PHYSOR, Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 28–Oct. 3 (2014).

Miscellaneous

  • William Boyd, Sterling Harper, and Paul K. Romano, “Equipping OpenMC for the big data era,” Accepted, PHYSOR 2016, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 1-5, 2016.
  • Qicang Shen, William Boyd, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, “Tally precision triggers for the OpenMC Monte Carlo code,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 112, 637-640 (2015).
  • 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).

Multi-group Cross Section Generation

  • Adam G. Nelson and William R. Martin, “Improved Monte Carlo tallying of multi-group scattering moments using the NDPP code,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 113, 645-648 (2015)
  • Adam G. Nelson and William R. Martin, “Improved Monte Carlo tallying of multi-group scattering moment matrices,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 110, 217-220 (2014).
  • 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).

Nuclear Data

  • Colin Josey, Pablo Ducru, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, “Windowed multipole for cross section Doppler broadening,” J. Comput. Phys., In Press (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/jcp.2015.08.013
  • Colin Josey, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, “Windowed multipole sensitivity to target accuracy of the optimization procedure,” J. Nucl. Sci. Technol., 52, 987-992 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2015.1035353
  • 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”, Comput. Phys. Commun., 196, 134-142 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2015.05.025
  • 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,” Proc. Joint Int. Conf. M&C+SNA+MC, Nashville, Tennessee, Apr. 19–23 (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).
  • Paul K. Romano and Timothy H. Trumbull, “Comparison of algorithms for Doppler broadening pointwise tabulated cross sections,” Ann. Nucl. Energy, 75, 358–364 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.08.046
  • 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).
  • Jonathan A. Walsh, Benoit Forget, and Kord S. Smith, “Accelerated sampling of the free gas resonance elastic scattering kernel,” Ann. Nucl. Energy, 69, 116–124 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2014.01.017
  • 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). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2013.09.043

Parallelism

  • 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,” Accepted, 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).
  • 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).
  • Nicholas Horelik, Andrew Siegel, Benoit Forget, and Kord Smith, “Monte Carlo domain decomposition for robust nuclear reactor analysis,” Parallel Comput., 40, 646–660 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2014.10.001
  • 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., 185 (4), 1195–1199 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2013.10.008
  • 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). http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201404301
  • 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). http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201404207
  • 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). http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/snamc/201404208
  • 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). http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1094342013492179
  • 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). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2013.06.011
  • 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). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2012.06.012
  • 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). http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73569