Ryan G. McClarren

Ryan G. McClarren

Visiting Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering

Date of Appointment: 2008

Office: 513C Blocker
Phone: 979/845-8311
Fax: 979/845-6443
E-mail: rgm@tamu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2007
M.S.E., Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2004
B.S.E., Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2003



Areas of Interest
  • Numerical methods for radiative transfer of x-rays
  • Spherical harmonics and other moment-based methods for particle transport
  • Computational radiation hydrodynamics for inertial confinement fusion and high temperature shocks
  • Multiphysics simulation of nuclear reactors
  • Uncertainty quantification for multiphysics simulations


Curriculum Vita: Click Here to View


Recent Publications

Journal Articles:

  1. G. Thoreson, R.G. McClarren, and J.H. Chang, "High Resolution Time Integration for Sn Radiation Transport," Annals of Nuclear Energy (to be published).
  2. R.G. McClarren and R.B. Lowrie, "The Effects of Slope Limiting on Asymptotic-Preserving Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws," Journal of Computational Physics 227(23), 9711-9726 (2008).
  3. R.G. McClarren and R.B. Lowrie, "Manufactured Solutions for the P1 Radiation-Hydrodynamics Equations," Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 109(15), 2590-2602 (2008).
  4. R.G. McClarren, T.M. Evans, R.B. Lowrie, and J.D. Densmore, "Semi-Implicit Time Integration for PN Thermal Radiative Transfer," Journal of Computational Physics 227(16), 7561-7586 (2008).
  5. R.G. McClarren and J.P. Holloway, "Quasi-Linear Time Integration for the Pn Equations," Nuclear Science and Engineering 159(3), 330-337 (2008).
  6. R.G. McClarren, J.P. Holloway, and T.A. Brunner, "Analytic P1 Solutions for Time-Dependent, Thermal Radiative Transfer in Several Geometries," Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 109(3), 389-403 (2008).
  7. R.G. McClarren, J.P. Holloway, and T.A. Brunner, "On Solutions to the Pn Equations for Thermal Radiative Transfer," Journal of Computational Physics 227(3), 2864-2885 (2008)
  8. R.G. McClarren, J.P. Holloway, T.A. Brunner, and T.A. Mehlhorn, "A Quasi-Linear Implicit Riemann Solver for the Time-Dependent Pn Equations," Nuclear Science and Engineering 155(2), 290-299 (2007).

Conference Proceedings:

  1. R.G. McClarren, "A Robust, High-order Implicit Monte Carlo Method for Thermal Radiative Transfer," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 98, 501, 2008.
  2. G. Thoreson, R.G. McClarren, and J.H. Chang, "High Resolution Time Integration for Sn Radiation Transport," Proceedings of the International Conference on the Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2008, Interlaken, Switzerland, September 14-19, 2008.
  3. R. Lowrie, T. Masser, R. McClarren, T. Urbatsch, C. Wingate, J. Wohlbier, and M. Clover, "Plans for and Progress Towards an Inertial Confinement Fusion Code from the Crestone Project," 49th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, Orlando, FL, November 2007.
  4. R.G. McClarren, T.M. Evans, and R.B. Lowrie, "Semi-Implicit Time Integration for the Pn Equations," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 97, 2007.
  5. R.G. McClarren and J.P. Holloway, "High Resolution Time Integration for the Spherical Harmonics Equations," Proceedings of the 2007 Joint International Topical Meeting on Mathematics and Computation and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Monterrey, CA, 15-19 April 2007.