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Adams, Marvin Professor
Positions
- HTRI Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, College of Engineering
- Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)
Key terms:
computational transport
predictive science and engineering
uncertainty quantification
computational transport
predictive science and engineering
uncertainty quantification
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Zhang, Y., & Adams, M. L.
(2020).
Analytic evaluation of hydrogen neutron elastic scattering moments with free-gas thermal treatment compared to NJOY. Progress in Nuclear Energy.
125, 103379-103379.
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Hanuš, M., Harbour, L. H., Ragusa, J. C., Adams, M. P., & Adams, M. L.
(2019).
Uncollided flux techniques for arbitrary finite element meshes. Journal of Computational Physics.
398, 108848-108848.
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Lau, C. Y., & Adams, M. L.
(2017).
Discrete Ordinates Quadratures Based on Linear and Quadratic Discontinuous Finite Elements over Spherical Quadrilaterals. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
185(1), 36-52.
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Kumar, A., Morel, J. E., & Adams, M. L.
(2015).
A new indirect measure of diffusion model error. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer.
163, 24-33.
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McClarren, R. G., Adams, M. L., Vaquer, P. A., & Strack, C.
(2014).
The Asymptotic Drift-Diffusion Limit of Thermal Neutrons. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Transport.
43(1-7), 402-417.
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Stehle, N. D., Anistratov, D. Y., & Adams, M. L.
(2014).
A hybrid transport-diffusion method for 2D transport problems with diffusive subdomains. Journal of Computational Physics.
270, 325-344.
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Stripling, H. F., Anitescu, M., & Adams, M. L.
(2013).
A generalized adjoint framework for sensitivity and global error estimation in time-dependent nuclear reactor simulations. ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY.
52, 47-58.
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Morel, J. E., Ragusa, J. C., Adams, M. L., & Kanschat, G.
(2013).
Asymptotic P N -Equivalent S N+1 Equations. Transport Theory and Statistical Physics.
42(1), 3-20.
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Pautz, S. D., Pandya, T. M., & Adams, M. L.
(2011).
Scalable Parallel Prefix Solvers for Discrete Ordinates Transport in Multidimensions. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
169(3), 245-261.
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Drake, R. P., Doss, F. W., McClarren, R. G., Adams, M. L., Amato, N., Bingham, D., ... Visco, A. J.
(2011).
Radiative effects in radiative shocks in shock tubes. High Energy Density Physics.
7(3), 130-140.
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Stripling, H. F., Adams, M. L., McClarren, R. G., & Mallick, B. K.
(2011).
The Method of Manufactured Universes for validating uncertainty quantification methods. RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY.
96(9), 1242-1256.
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van der Holst, B., Tóth, G., Sokolov, I. V., Powell, K. G., Holloway, J. P., Myra, E. S., ... Drake, R. P.
(2011).
CRASH: A BLOCK-ADAPTIVE-MESH CODE FOR RADIATIVE SHOCK HYDRODYNAMICS—IMPLEMENTATION AND VERIFICATION. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series.
194(2), 23-23.
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Bailey, T. S., Adams, M. L., Yang, B., & Zika, M. R.
(2008).
A piecewise linear finite element discretization of the diffusion equation for arbitrary polyhedral grids. Journal of Computational Physics.
227(8), 3738-3757.
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Adams, M. L.
(2004).
Editorial to: Edward Larsen’s 60th birthday. ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY.
31(17), 1959-1960.
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Adams, M. L.
(2004).
“I have an idea!” An appreciation of Edward W. Larsen’s contributions to particle transport. ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY.
31(17), 1963-1986.
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Alonso, G., & Adams, M. L.
(2002).
A Mixed-Oxide Assembly Design for Rapid Disposition of Weapons Plutonium in Pressurized Water Reactors. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
141(2), 111-128.
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Pautz, S. D., & Adams, M. L.
(2002).
An Asymptotic Study of Discretized Transport Equations in the Fokker-Planck Limit. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
140(1), 51-69.
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Adams, M. L., & Larsen, E. W.
(2002).
Fast iterative methods for discrete-ordinates particle transport calculations. Progress in Nuclear Energy.
40(1), 3-159.
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Adams, M. L.
(2001).
Discontinuous Finite Element Transport Solutions in Thick Diffusive Problems. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
137(3), 298-333.
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Eaton, S. L., Beard, C. A., Daemen, L. L., Wilson, W. B., & Adams, M. L.
(2000).
Calculational analysis of structural activation induced by 20–100 Mev proton beam loss in high-power linear accelerators. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.
168(1), 88-97.
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Zika, M. R., & Adams, M. L.
(2000).
Transport Synthetic Acceleration for Long-Characteristics Assembly-Level Transport Problems. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
134(2), 135-158.
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Zika, M. R., & Adams, M. L.
(2000).
Transport Synthetic Acceleration with Opposing Reflecting Boundary Conditions. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
134(2), 159-170.
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Adams, M. L., & Nowak, P. F.
(1998).
Asymptotic Analysis of a Computational Method for Time- and Frequency-Dependent Radiative Transfer. Journal of Computational Physics.
146(1), 366-403.
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Adams, M. L., Wareing, T. A., & Walters, W. F.
(1998).
Characteristic Methods in Thick Diffusive Problems. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
130(1), 18-46.
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Castrianni, C. L., & Adams, M. L.
(1998).
A Nonlinear Corner-Balance Spatial Discretization for Transport on Arbitrary Grids. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
128(3), 278-296.
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Anistratov, D. Y., Adams, M. L., & Larsen, E. W.
(1997).
Acceleration of the Nonlinear Corner-Balance Scheme by the Averaged Flux Method. Journal of Computational Physics.
135(1), 66-75.
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Ramone, G. L., Adams, M. L., & Nowak, P. F.
(1997).
A Transport Synthetic Acceleration Method for Transport Iterations. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
125(3), 257-283.
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Eaton, S. L., Beard, C. A., & Adams, M. L.
(1997).
Comparison of LAHET Code System Calculations with Experimental Results for Protons of Energies Less than 50 MeV Incident on Copper and Iron. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
125(3), 249-256.
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Adams, M. L.
(1997).
Subcell balance methods for radiative transfer on arbitrary grids. Transport Theory and Statistical Physics.
26(4-5), 385-431.
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Adams, M. L., & Martin, W. R.
(1992).
Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration of Discontinuous Finite Element Transport Iterations. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
111(2), 145-167.
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Börgers, C., Larsen, E. W., & Adams, M. L.
(1992).
The asymptotic diffusion limit of a linear discontinuous discretization of a two-dimensional linear transport equation. Journal of Computational Physics.
98(2), 285-300.
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Adams, M. L.
(1991).
Even-parity finite-element transport methods in the diffusion limit. Progress in Nuclear Energy.
25(2-3), 159-198.
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Adams, M. L., Larsen, E. W., & Pomraning, G. C.
(1989).
Benchmark results for particle transport in a binary Markov statistical medium. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer.
42(4), 253-266.
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Adams, M. L., & Martin, W. R.
(1988).
Boundary Projection Acceleration: A New Approach to Synthetic Acceleration of Transport Calculations. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
100(3), 177-189.
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Adams, M. L., & Martin, W. R.
(1986).
Slab geometry transport spatial discretization schemes with infinite-order convergence. Transport Theory and Statistical Physics.
15(5), 651-671.
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Zhang, Y., & Adams, M. L.
(2020).
Analytic evaluation of hydrogen neutron elastic scattering moments with free-gas thermal treatment compared to NJOY. Progress in Nuclear Energy.
125, 103379-103379.
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conference paper
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Adams, M. P., Adams, M. L., Hawkins, W. D., Smith, T., Rauchwerger, L., Amato, N. M., ... Brown, P.
(2020).
Provably optimal parallel transport sweeps on semi-structured grids. Journal of Computational Physics.
109234-2553.
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Till, A. T., Harmš, M., Lou, J., Morel, J. E., & Adams, M. L.
(2016).
Comparisons of the finite-element-with-discontiguous-support method to continuous-energy Monte Carlo for pin-cell problems (summary). 3409-3423.
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Vermaak, J., Pongpun, S., Adams, M., & Conroy, T.
(2016).
In-core neutron detectors for characterizing high temporal-resolution reactor transients. 928-940.
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Barbu, A. P., & Adams, M. L.
(2015).
A nonlinear acceleration method for radiative transfer problems. 2847-2866.
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McGraw, C. N., Adams, M. L., Hawkins, W. D., Adams, M. P., & Smith, T.
(2015).
Accuracy of the linear discontinuous Galerkin method for 3D reactor analysis with resolved fuel pins. 3155-3168.
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Bruss, D. E., McClarren, R. G., Adams, M. L., & Morel, J. E.
(2015).
Construction of response surfaces for a reactor-like problem with realistic cross section uncertainties. 2270-2286.
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Lau, C. Y., & Adams, M. L.
(2015).
Discrete-ordinates quadratures based on linear and quadratic discontinuous finite elements over spherical quadrilaterals. 2197-2212.
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Adams, M. P., Adams, M. L., McGraw, C. N., Till, A. T., & Bailey, T. S.
(2015).
Provably optimal parallel transport sweeps with non-contiguous partitions. 1218-1236.
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Till, A. T., Adams, M. L., & Morel, J. E.
(2015).
The finite element with discontiguous support multigroup method: Application. 737-748.
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Till, A. T., Adams, M. L., & Morel, J. E.
(2015).
The finite element with discontiguous support multigroup method: Theory. 725-736.
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Adams, M. L.
(2014).
Stockpile stewardship past, present, and future. 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LASER PROBING - LAP 2008.
115-122.
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Hawkins, W. D., Bailey, T. S., Adams, M. L., Brown, P. N., Kunen, A. J., Adams, M. P., ... Rauchwerger, L.
(2014).
Validation of full-domain massively parallel transport sweep algorithms. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY.
699-702.
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Kumar, A., Morel, J. E., & Adams, M. L.
(2013).
A new indirect measure of diffusion model error. 2076-2087.
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Till, A. T., Adams, M. L., & Morel, J. E.
(2013).
Application of nonlinear Krylov acceleration to radiative transfer problems. 2690-2701.
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Stripling, H. F., Adams, M. L., & Hawkins, W. D.
(2013).
Efficient checkpointing schemes for depletion perturbation solutions on memory-limited architectures. 2485-2500.
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Bailey, T. S., Warsa, J. S., Chang, J. H., & Adams, M. L.
(2013).
Thick diffusion limit boundary layer test problems. 1369-1386.
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Sooby, E., Adams, M., Baty, A., Gerity, J., McIntyre, P., Melconian, K., ... Tsevkov, P.
(2013).
Molten salt considerations for accelerator-driven subcritical fission to close the nuclear fuel cycle. 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LASER PROBING - LAP 2008.
230-235.
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Hawkins, W. D., Smith, T., Adams, M. P., Rauchwerger, L., Amato, N., & Adams, M. L.
(2012).
Efficient massively parallel transport sweeps. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY.
477-481.
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Stehle, N. D., Anistratov, D. Y., & Adams, M. L.
(2011).
Domain decomposition method for the simple corner balance scheme in problems with diffusive regions. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY.
440-442.
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Stripling, H. F., & Adams, M. L.
(2011).
Propagation of errors in nuclide production and depletion calculations. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY.
355-357.
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Wu, Z., & Adams, M. L.
(2010).
Variable change technique applied in constrained inverse transport applications. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY.
209-212.
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Wu, Z., & Adams, M. L.
(2010).
Advances in Inverse Transport Methods. 721-727.
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Bailey, T. S., Adams, M. L., Chang, J. H., & Warsa, J. S.
(2009).
A piecewise linear discontinuous finite element spatial discretization of the transport equation in 2D cylindrical geometry. 2515-2528.
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Pandya, T., & Adams, M.
(2009).
Method of long characteristics applied in space and time. 3373-3390.
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Pautz, S., Pandya, T., & Adams, M.
(2009).
Scalable parallel prefix solvers for discrete ordinates transport. 1766-1777.
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Barbu, A. P., & Adams, M. L.
(2009).
Semi-consistent diffusion synthetic acceleration for discontinuous discretizations of transport problems. 1035-1047.
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Jarrell, J. J., Adams, M. L., & Risner, J. M.
(2009).
Application of Quadruple Range Quadratures to Three-Dimensional Model Shielding Problems. NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY.
424-430.
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Drake, R. P., Doss, F. W., Fryxell, B., Grosskopf, M. J., Holloway, J. P., van der Holst, B., ... Bingham, D.
(2009).
Using High Power Lasers to Create Radiative Shock Waves. 1-2.
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Drake, R. P., Doss, F. W., Fryxell, B., Grosskopf, M. J., Holloway, J. P., van der Holst, B., ... Bingham, D.
(2009).
CHALLENGES TO UNDERSTANDING RADIATIVE SHOCKS* *Supported by the DOE NNSA under the Predictive Sci. Academic Alliance Program by grant DE-FC52-08NA28616, the Stewardship Sci. Academic Alliances program by grant DE-FG52-04NA00064, and the Nat. Laser User Facility by grant DE-FG03-00SF22021. 2013 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS).
1-1.
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Reed, M. S., Adams, M. L., & Morel, J. E.
(2006).
Transport error estimates for adaptive refinement of spatial grids. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY.
574-576.
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Clarno, K. T., & Adams, M. L.
(2005).
Capturing the Effects of Unlike Neighbors in Single-Assembly Calculations. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
182-196.
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Hiruta, H., Anistratov, D. Y., & Adams, M. L.
(2005).
Splitting Method for Solving the Coarse-Mesh Discretized Low-Order Quasi-Diffusion Equations. NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
162-181.
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Ford, J., Burchill, W., Adams, M., Hart, R., Suson, D., Cox, P., ... Peddicord, K. L.
(2005).
A multi-dimensional nuclear engineering partnership. 2011 ASEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION.
10587-10588.
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Hawkins, W. D., & Adams, M. L.
(2004).
Consistent stretched transport synthetic acceleration of one-dimensional s
n problems. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY. 148-150.
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McIntyre, P., Sattarov, A., Adams, M., Best, F., Kurwitz, C., & Wu, Z.
(2003).
Accelerator-driven thorium cycle power reactor: Design and performance calculations. 1881-1885.
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Clarno, K. T., & Adams, M. L.
(2003).
Recent Improvements in Boundary Conditions for Single-Assembly Calculations. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY.
599.
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Adams, M. L., ENGINEERING, N., & ENGINEERING, N.
(2003).
Sustainable energy from nuclear fission power. 71-80.
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Waltar, A. E., Adams, M., Hamilton, I., Hart, R., Lee, P., & Earl, B.
(2001).
Turning the tide on nuclear engineering undergraduate enrollment. ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings.
10767-10772.
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Mathis, M. M., Amato, N. M., & Adams, M. L.
(2000).
General performance model for parallel sweeps on orthogonal grids for particle transport calculations. 255-263.
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Peddicord, K. L., Nelson, P., Adams, M. L., Boyle, D. R., McFarland, A., Poston, J., ... Beard, C.
(1999).
The university-to-university components. 197-200.
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Adams, M. L., Carron, I., McFarland, A. R., Nelson, P., Schweikert, E. A., Mahmassani, H., ... Roundhill, D. M.
(1999).
University contributions to research in nuclear materials safety. 207-220.
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Maginot, P. G., Nowak, P. F., & Adams, M. L.
A Review of the Upstream Corner Balance Spatial Discretization
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Hetzler, A. C., Adams, M. L., Stripling IV, H. F., & Hawkins, W. D.
Physics-based dimension reduction in uncertainty quantification for radiative transfer. 2147-2157.
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Adams, M. P., Adams, M. L., Hawkins, W. D., Smith, T., Rauchwerger, L., Amato, N. M., ... Brown, P.
(2020).
Provably optimal parallel transport sweeps on semi-structured grids. Journal of Computational Physics.
109234-2553.
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Research
co-principal investigator on
- Models with Multiple Levels of Fidelity, Tractability, and Computational Cost for Nuclear Weapon Radiation Effects awarded by United States Department of Defense - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2018 - 2021
- CERT (Center for Exascale Radiation Transport) awarded by United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2014 - 2020
awards and honors
Teaching
teaching activities
- ENGR489 Sptp: Dynamics Lanl Instructor
- ENGR689 Sptp: Machine Lrng Lanl Instructor
- NUEN301 Hnr-nuclear Reactor Theory Instructor
- NUEN304 Nuclear Reactor Analysis Instructor
- NUEN485 Directed Studies Instructor
- NUEN491 Hnr-research Instructor
- NUEN601 Nuclear Reactor Theory Instructor
- NUEN685 Directed Studies Instructor
- NUEN685 Directed Studies Instructor
- NUEN691 Research Instructor
- NUEN691 Research Instructor
- NUEN691 Research: In-ab Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Bailey, Teresa S (2006-08). A piecewise linear finite element discretization of the diffusion equation.
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Bailey, Teresa S (2008-05). The piecewise linear discontinuous finite element method applied to the RZ and XYZ transport equations.
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Barbu, Anthony Petru (2011-05). Diffusion Preconditioner for Discontinuous Galerkin Transport Problems.
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Edwards, Jarrod Douglas (2013-12). Second-Order Accurate Method for Solving Radiation-Hydrodynamics.
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Gariazzo, Claudio (2017-12). A Game-Theoretic Model of Mutual Benefits in Bilateral Nuclear Security Regimes.
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Hetzler, Adam C (2013-05). Quantification of Uncertainties Due to Opacities in a Laser-Driven Radiative-Shock Problem.
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Hiatt, Matthew Torgerson (2007-08). TXSAMC (transport cross sections from applied Monte Carlo): a new tool for generating shielded multigroup cross sections.
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Holzaepfel, Aaron J (2016-08). High Fidelity Deterministic Solution of Neutron Transport Problems in Graphite.
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Jarrell, Joshua (2010-12). An Adaptive Angular Discretization Method for Neutral-Particle Transport in Three-Dimensional Geometries.
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Lansrud, Brian David (2005-05). A spatial multigrid iterative method for two-dimensional discrete-ordinates transport problems.
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Lau, Cheuk Yiu (2016-08). Adaptive Discrete-Ordinates Quadratures Based on Discontinuous Finite Elements Over Spherical Quadrilaterals.
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Maslowski Olivares, Alexander Enrique (2008-12). A new iterative approach to solving the transport equation.
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Merchant, Lance William (2016-12). Neutronics Simulations of Graphite Experiments.
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Pandya, Tara M 1984- (2012-12). Long-Characteristics Methods with Piecewise Linear Sources in Space and Time for Transport on Unstructured Grids.
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Pandya, Tara M. (2009-12). Long Characteristic Method in Space and Time for Transport Problems.
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Reed, Michael Shane (2015-05). A Second Order Linear Discontinuous Cut-Cell Discretization for the SN Equations in RZ Geometry.
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Scipolo, Vittorio (2004-08). Scattered neutron tomography based on a neutron transport problem.
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Stone, Joseph Carlyle (2007-12). Adaptive discrete-ordinates algorithms and strategies.
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Stone, Joseph Carlyle (2007-12). Adaptive discrete-ordinates algorithms and strategies.
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Stripling, Hayes Franklin (2010-12). The Method of Manufactured Universes for Testing Uncertainty Quantification Methods.
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Stripling, Hayes Franklin (2013-08). Adjoint-Based Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis for Reactor Depletion Calculations.
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Till, Andrew (2015-12). Finite Elements with Discontiguous Support for Energy Discretization in Particle Transport.
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Till, Andrew Thomas (2014-05). A Generalized Multigroup Method.
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Vega, Richard Manuel (2019-05). An Extended Slice Balance Approach for Solving the Discrete Ordinates Neutral Particle Transport Equations on the Next Generation of Super-Computers.
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Windsor, Ethan (2014-08). The Implementation of Photon Polarization into the Mercury Transport Code.
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Wu, Zeyun (2010-12). Advances in Inverse Transport Methods and Applications to Neutron Tomography.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) 1986
- M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - (Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) 1984
- B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Mississippi State University - (Starkville, Mississippi, United States) 1981
Contact
first name
- Marvin
has last name
- Adams
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Institute For National Security Education
3473 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3133
USA
Other
- mladams@tamu.edu