Search Results - "Romano, Paul"

OpenMC: A state-of-the-art Monte Carlo code for research and development by Romano, Paul K., Horelik, Nicholas E., Herman, Bryan R., Nelson, Adam G., Forget, Benoit, Smith, Kord

“…•OpenMC is an open source Monte Carlo particle transport code.•Solid geometry and continuous-energy physics allow high-fidelity simulations.•Development has…”
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Development and validation of fully open-source R2S shutdown dose rate capabilities in OpenMC by Peterson, Ethan E., Romano, Paul K., Shriwise, Patrick C., Myers, Patrick A.

“…We present the first fully open-source capabilities for shutdown dose rate (SDR) calculations of fusion energy facilities based on the Rigorous 2-Step (R2S)…”
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Upsampling Monte Carlo Reactor Simulation Tallies in Depleted Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Assemblies Using a Convolutional Neural Network by Berry, Jessica, Romano, Paul, Osborne, Andrew

“…The computational demand of neutron Monte Carlo transport simulations can increase rapidly with the spatial and energy resolution of tallied physical…”
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Extending deterministic transport capabilities for very-high and ultra-high energy electron beams by Naceur, Ahmed, Bienvenue, Charles, Romano, Paul, Chilian, Cornelia, Carrier, Jean-François

“…Focused Very-High Energy Electron (VHEE, 50–300 MeV) and Ultra-High Energy Electron (UHEE, > 300 MeV) beams can accurately target both large and deeply seated…”
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Upsampling Monte Carlo reactor simulation tallies in depleted LWR assemblies fueled with LEU and HALEU using a convolutional neural network by Berry, Jessica, Romano, Paul, Osborne, Andrew

“…Simulating nuclear reactor cores at the highest achievable spatial and energy resolution is critical in modeling these systems accurately. Increasing the…”
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An algorithm for generating random variates from the Madland–Nix fission energy spectrum by Romano, Paul K.

“…An algorithm for generating random variates from the Madland–Nix fission energy spectrum assuming a constant compound nucleus cross section is given based on…”
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Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing of CAD-Based Geometry for Monte Carlo Radiation Transport by Shriwise, Patrick C., Wilson, Paul P. H., Davis, Andrew, Romano, Paul K.

“…Monte Carlo radiation transport (MCRT) methods have been used to simulate radiation environments for many decades by tracking individual particles through a…”
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Upsampling Monte Carlo neutron transport simulation tallies using a convolutional neural network by Osborne, Andrew, Dorville, Joffrey, Romano, Paul

“…•A residual convolutional neural network model was trained to upsample nuclear reactor simulations' neutron flux tallies from 64 × 64 pixels and 8 energy…”
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Feasibility of a multigroup Boltzmann–Fokker–Planck solution for electron beam dose calculations by Naceur, Ahmed, Hébert, Alain, Romano, Paul, Forget, Benoit, Chilian, Cornelia, Carrier, Jean-François

“…Legacy nuclear-reactor Boltzmann solvers start clinical deployment as an alternative to Monte Carlo (MC) codes and Fermi–Eyges semiemprical models in radiation…”
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Data decomposition of Monte Carlo particle transport simulations via tally servers by Romano, Paul K., Siegel, Andrew R., Forget, Benoit, Smith, Kord

“…An algorithm for decomposing large tally data in Monte Carlo particle transport simulations is developed, analyzed, and implemented in a continuous-energy…”
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Methods for processing and use of thermal neutron scattering data in OpenMC by Romano, Paul K., Nelson, Adam G.

“…OpenMC, an open source Monte Carlo particle transport code, relies on its own nuclear data format that is based on the HDF5 file format. The Python API within…”
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Language and design evolution of the OpenMC Monte Carlo particle transport code by Romano, Paul, Tramm, John, Shriwise, Patrick

“…The OpenMC Monte Carlo particle transport code has been continuously developed for 13 years by a large community of contributors. In that time span, the…”
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The Effect of the Flux Separability Approximation on Multigroup Neutron Transport by Nelson, Adam G., Boyd, William, Romano, Paul K.

“…The angular dependence of flux-weighted multigroup cross sections is commonly neglected when generating multigroup libraries. The error of this flux…”
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Optimizations of the energy grid search algorithm in continuous-energy Monte Carlo particle transport codes by Walsh, Jonathan A., Romano, Paul K., Forget, Benoit, Smith, Kord S.

“…In this work we propose, implement, and test various optimizations of the typical energy grid-cross section pair lookup algorithm in Monte Carlo particle…”
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Nuclear data processing capabilities in OpenMC by Romano, Paul, Harper, Sterling

“…This work describes newly developed features of the OpenMC code for nuclear data processing. OpenMC, in addition to being a transport code, includes a rich,…”
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Performance Portable Monte Carlo Particle Transport on Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD GPUs by Tramm, John, Romano, Paul, Shriwise, Patrick, Lund, Amanda, Doerfert, Johannes, Steinbrecher, Patrick, Siegel, Andrew, Ridley, Gavin

“…OpenMC is an open source Monte Carlo neutral particle transport application that has recently been ported to GPU using the OpenMP target offloading model. We…”
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Celeritas: Accelerating Geant4 with GPUs by Johnson, Seth R., Esseiva, Julien, Biondo, Elliott, Canal, Philippe, Demarteau, Marcel, Evans, Thomas, Jun, Soon Yung, Lima, Guilherme, Lund, Amanda, Romano, Paul, Tognini, Stefano C.

“…Celeritas [1] is a new Monte Carlo (MC) detector simulation code designed for computationally intensive applications (specifically, High Lumi- nosity Large…”
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TOWARDS CAD-BASED GEOMETRY MODELLING WITH THE RANDOM RAY METHOD by Shriwise, Patrick C., Tramm, John R., Davis, Andrew, Romano, Paul K.

“…The Advanced Random Ray Code (ARRC) is a high performance computing application capable of high-fidelity simulations of full core nuclear reactor models. ARRC…”
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A COMPARISON OF STOCHASTIC MESH CELL VOLUME COMPUTATION STRATEGIES FOR THE RANDOM RAY METHOD OF NEUTRAL PARTICLE TRANSPORT by Tramm, John R., Siegel, Andrew R., Lund, Amanda L., Romano, Paul K.

“…The random ray method is a recently developed neutron transport method that can be used to perform efficient full-core, general-purpose, high-fidelity 3D…”
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Comparison of algorithms for Doppler broadening pointwise tabulated cross sections by Romano, Paul K, Trumbull, Timothy H

“…In this paper, three algorithms for Doppler broadening pointwise tabulated cross sections are compared on the basis of speed and accuracy. The use of a…”
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