Jim E. Morel

Jim E. Morel

Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Director, Center for LArge-Scale Scientific Simulations(CLASS)

Date of Appointment: 2005

Office: 129 Zachry Engineering Center
Phone: 979/845-6072
Fax: 979/845-6443
E-mail: morel@tamu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, 1979
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Louisiana State University, 1974
B.S., Mathematics, Louisiana State University, 1972

Courses Taught

NUEN 430: Computer Applications in Nuclear Engineering
NUEN 604: Radiation Interaction and Shielding
NUEN 625: Neutron Transport Theory
NUEN 630: Computational Methods for Particle Transport Problems
NUEN 689: Special Topics: Radiation Hydrodynamics

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Areas of Interest

Discretization techniques and associated multi-level solution techniques for neutral-particle and charged-particle diffusion and transport on unstructured meshes and structured meshes with adaptive refinement. Monte Carlo methods and hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo methods. Discretization and solution techniques for multiphysics/multiscale calculations, e.g. radiation-hydrodynamics calculations.



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Recent Publications

Journal Articles:

  1. M. Rosa, Y. Azmy, and J. E. Morel, "Properties of the Sn-Equivalent Integral Transport Operator in Slab Geometry and the Iterative Acceleration of Neutral Particle Transport Methods," Nuclear Science and Engineering (to be published).
  2. J. Morel, T.-Y. Brian Yang, and James S. Warsa, "Linear Multifrequency-Grey Acceleration Recast for Preconditioned Krylov Iterations," Journal of Computational Physics 227(1), 244-263 (2007).
  3. D. A. Knoll, R. B. Lowrie, and J. E. Morel, "Numerical Analysis of Time Integration Errors for Nonequilibrium Radiation Diffusion," Journal of Computational Physics 226(2), 1332-1347 (2007).
  4. J. E. Morel and J. S. Warsa, "Spatial Finite-Element Lumping Techniques for the Quadrilateral Mesh Sn Equations in X − Y Geometry," Nuclear Science and Engineering 156(3), 325-342 (2007).
  5. J. E. Morel, A. Prinja, J. McGhee, T. Wareing, and B. C. Franke, "A Discretization Scheme for the 3-D Angular Fokker-Planck Operator," Nuclear Science and Engineering 156(2), 154-163 (2007).
  6. J. E. Morel, J. S. Warsa, and A. Gonzalez-Aller, "A Lumped Linear-Discontinuous Spatial Discretization Scheme for Sn Calculations in R − Z Geometry," Nuclear Science and Engineering 155(2), 168-178 (2007).

Conference Proceedings:

  1. J. Morel, J. Densmore, J. Warsa, and R. Lowrie, "Linearized Stability Analysis of Two Time Discretizations for the Compton Scattering Fokker-Planck Equation," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Reno, NV, 9-13 November 2008.
  2. J.D. Densmore, J.S. Warsa, R.B. Lowrie, and J.E. Morel, "Linearized Stability Analysis of Two Time Discretizations for the Compton-Scattering Fokker-Planck Equation," Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, 99, 328-331 (2008).
  3. J. D. Densmore, J. S. Warsa, and J. E. Morel, "A Fokker-Planck Method for Modelling Compton Scattering in Implicit Monte Carlo Simulations," Joint International Topical meeting on Mathematics and Computation and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Monterrey, CA, 15-19 April 2007.
  4. J. S. Warsa and J. E. Morel, "Solution Algorithms for a Pn−1-Equivalent Sn Angular Discretization of the Transport Equation in One-Dimensional Spherical Coordinates," Joint International Topical meeting on Mathematics and Computation and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Monterrey, CA, 15-19 April 2007.
  5. F. N. Gleicher, J. S. Warsa, J. E. Morel, and A. K. Prinja, "Subcell Sn Sweeping for Meshes with Reentrant Cells," Joint International Topical meeting on Mathematics and Computation and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Monterrey, CA, 15-19 April 2007.