education and training
- Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico - (Valencia, New Mexico, United States) 1979
- M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Louisiana State University - (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States) 1974
- B.S. in Mathematics, Louisiana State University - (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States) 1972
selected publications
Academic Articles129
- Lou, J., & Morel, J. E. (2021). A variable Eddington factor method with different spatial discretizations for the radiative transfer equation and the hydrodynamics/radiation-moment equations. Journal of Computational Physics. 439, 110393-110393.
- Till, A. T., Adams, M. L., & Morel, J. E. (2021). The Finite-Element with Discontiguous-Support Method. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 196(1), 53-74.
- Vermaak, J., Ragusa, J. C., & Morel, J. E. (2021). Massively Parallel Transport Sweeps on Meshes with Cyclic Dependencies. Journal of Computational Physics. 425, 109892-109892.
- Hanophy, J., Southworth, B. S., Li, R., Manteuffel, T., & Morel, J. (2020). Parallel Approximate Ideal Restriction Multigrid for Solving the SN Transport Equations. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 194(11), 989-1008.
- Zhang, Y., Ragusa, J. C., & Morel, J. E. (2020). Model Error Estimation for the Simplified PN Radiation Transport Equations. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 194(10), 903-926.
Chapters2
- Larsen, E. W., & Morel, J. E. (2010). Advances in Discrete-Ordinates Methodology. Nuclear Computational Science. 1-84. Springer Netherlands.
- Morel, J. E. (2006). Discrete-Ordinates Methods for Radiative Transfer in the Non-Relativistic Stellar Regime. SPECTRAL AND HIGH ORDER METHODS FOR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS ICOSAHOM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. 69-81. Springer-Verlag.
Conference Papers60
- Hardy, Z., Morel, J., & Ahrens, C. (2019). Dynamic Mode Decompo- sition for Subcritical Metal Systems. M&C 2019: International Con- ference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nu- clear Science and Engineering.
- Behne, P., Ragusa, J., & Morel, J. (2019). Model Order Reduction for Sn Radiation Transport. M&C 2019: International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering.
- Hanophy, J., Southworth, B., Manteuffel, T., Morel, J., & Li, R. (2019). Performance of Parallel Approximate Ideal Restriction Multigrid for Transport Applications. M&C 2019: International Con- ference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nu- clear Science and Engineering.
- Zhang, Y., & Morel, J. (2018). Transport Error Estimation via Non-Recursive Residual Monte Carlo. PHYSOR 2018: Reactor Physics Paving The Way Towards More Efficient Systems.
- Bruss, D., Morel, J., & Ragusa, J. (2017). Adjoint-Based Uncer- tainty Quantification for Radiation Transport Calculations with Un- certain Cross-Section Data. https://www.kns.org/paper/inter paper/lists/n conf name/MC2017/, M&C 2017 - International Conference on Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science & Engineering.
Repository Documents / Preprints1
- Sheriffdeen, S., Ragusa, J. C., Morel, J. E., Adams, M. L., & Bui-Thanh, T. (2019). Accelerating PDE-constrained Inverse Solutions with Deep Learning and Reduced Order Models.
in the news
- School of Engineering honors eight with Distinguished Alumni Award The University of New Mexico Newsroom November 9, 2020
researcher on
Principal Investigator1
- CERT (Center for Exascale Radiation Transport) awarded by DOE-National Nuclear Security Administration 2014 - 2020
Co-Principal Investigator1
awards and honors
- Gerald C Pomraning Award conferred by American Nuclear Society - (La Grange Park, Illinois, United States) - Mathematics and Computation Division 2017
recent teaching activities
- NUEN430 Comp Appl In Nuc Engr Instructor
- NUEN485 Directed Studies Instructor
- NUEN491 Hnr-research Instructor
- NUEN491 Research Instructor
- NUEN625 Neutron Trans Theory Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Bolding, Simon Ray (2017-05). A High-Order Low-Order Algorithm with Exponentially-Convergent Monte Carlo for Thermal Radiative Transfer Problems. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Kumar, Akansha (2016-12). An Iterative Optimization Method Using Genetic Algorithms and Gaussian Process Based Regression in Nuclear Reactor Design Applications. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Bruss, Donald Eugene (2016-08). Adjoint-Based Uncertainty Quantification for Neutron Transport Calculations. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Till, Andrew (2015-12). Finite Elements with Discontiguous Support for Energy Discretization in Particle Transport. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Maginot, Peter G (2015-08). Higher Order Discontinuous Finite Element Methods for Discrete Ordinates Thermal Radiative Transfer. (Doctoral Dissertation)
Email
morel@tamu.edu
First Name
Jim
Last Name
Morel
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Nuclear Engineering; 3133 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3133
USA