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 Articles138
- Woodsford, C., Tutt, J., & Morel, J. E. (2024). A Variant of the Second-Moment Method for k-Eigenvalue Calculations. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 198(11), 2148-2156.
- Hardy, Z. K., Morel, J. E., & Vermaak, J. (2024). A Second Moment Method for k-Eigenvalue Acceleration with Continuous Diffusion and Discontinuous Transport Discretizations. Nuclear Science and Engineering.
- Shands, E. W., Morel, J. E., Ahrens, C. D., & Franke, B. C. (2024). A New Galerkin Quadrature Method Not Requiring a Matrix Inverse. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 1-18.
- Morel, J. E. (2024). Diffusion Asymptotics With Fully Anisotropic Source and Scattering. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Transport. 53(6), 463-467.
- Ricketts, S. A., Mangan, M. A., Volegov, P., Fittinghoff, D. N., Lewis, W. E., Mannion, O. M., ... Ampleford, D. J. (2024). Neutron source reconstruction using a generalized expectation-maximization algorithm on one-dimensional neutron images from the Z facility.. Review of Scientific Instruments. 95(3), 033501.
Chapters2
- Larsen, E. W., & Morel, J. E. (2010). Advances in Discrete-Ordinates Methodology. NUCLEAR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE: A CENTURY IN REVIEW. 1-84. Springer Nature.
- Morel, J. E. (2006). Discrete-Ordinates Methods for Radiative Transfer in the Non-Relativistic Stellar Regime. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. Computational Methods in Transport. 69-81. Springer Nature.
Conference Papers66
- Shands, E., Hanophy, J., & Morel, J. (2023). A Modified S2 Method for Calculating the Uncollided Flux from a Point Source With- out Ray Effects. M&C 2023 - The International Conference on Math- ematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering.
- Hardy, Z. K., & Morel, J. (2023). A Non-Intrusive Emulator for Charac- terizing Parametric Behaviors of Time-Eigenvalues. M&C 2023 - The International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering.
- Tutt, J., Woodsford, C., & Morel, J. (2023). A Second-Moment Method for k-Eigenvalue Acceleration. M&C 2023 - The Interna- tional Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering.
- Hardy, Z. K., & Morel, J. (2023). Partitioned Dynamic Mode Decompo- sition for Nonlinear or Transient Dynamics. M&C 2023 - The Interna- tional Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering.
- Morel, J., & Hardy, Z. K. (2023). Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Mode Coefficient Interpolation: A Non-Intrusive Reduced-Order Model for Parametric Reactor Kinetics. M&C 2023 - The International Con- ference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering.
Repository Documents / Preprints5
- Hardy, Z. K., Morel, J. E., & Vermaak, J. (2024). A Second Moment Method for k-Eigenvalue Acceleration with Continuous Diffusion and Discontinuous Transport Discretizations.
- Paye, R. C., Anistratov, D. Y., Morel, J. E., & Warsa, J. S. (2023). Reduced-Memory Methods for Linear Discontinuous Discretization of the Time-Dependent Boltzmann Transport Equation.
- Hardy, Z. K., & Morel, J. E. (2023). Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Mode Coefficient Interpolation: A Non-Intrusive Reduced-Order Model for Parametric Reactor Kinetics.
- 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.
- Hammer, H., Morel, J., & Wang, Y. (2019). Nonlinear Diffusion Acceleration of the Least-Squares Transport Equation in Geometries with Voids.
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 (2017-02). 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 (2016-07). 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 (2015-07). Higher Order Discontinuous Finite Element Methods for Discrete Ordinates Thermal Radiative Transfer. (Doctoral Dissertation)
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Texas A&M University; Nuclear Engineering; 3133 TAMU
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