Adams, Marvin
individual record
Professor
Positions:
- Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Division of Research
- HTRI Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, College of Engineering
overview
Key terms:
computational transport
predictive science and engineering
uncertainty quantification
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
selected publications
Academic Articles44
- Barbu, A. P., & Adams, M. L. (2023). Convergence Properties of a Linear Diffusion-Acceleration Method for k-Eigenvalue Transport Problems. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 197(4), 517-533.
- Till, A. T., Adams, M. L., & Morel, J. E. (2022). The Finite-Element with Discontiguous-Support Method. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 196(1), 53-74.
- Grosskopf, M., Bingham, D., Adams, M. L., Hawkins, W. D., & Perez-Nunez, D. (2021). Generalized Computer Model Calibration for Radiation Transport Simulation. Technometrics. 63(1), 27-39.
- Vermaak, J., Ragusa, J. C., & Morel, J. E. (2021). Massively Parallel Transport Sweeps on Meshes with Cyclic Dependencies. 425, 109892-109892.
- 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.
Chapters2
- Adams, M. (2020). Introduction. Springer Proceedings in Physics. International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation. 57-59. Springer Nature.
- Adams, M. L. (1991). Deterministic transport on an arbitrarily connected grid. Lecture Notes in Physics. Advances in the Free-Lagrange Method Including Contributions on Adaptive Gridding and the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics Method. 212-221. Springer Nature.
Conference Papers47
- Adams, M. (2019). Realizing the Promise of the Non-proliferation Regime Through Cooperation and Monitoring. Proceedings of the XXI Edoardo Amaldi Conference. 243, 57-59.
- Barbu, A., & Adams, M. (2019). A Linear Diffusion-Acceleration Method for k-Eigenvalue Transport. Proc. International Conference on Mathematics & Computation: Bridging Theory and Applications.
- Ghaddar, T., Ragusa, J., Vermaak, J., & Adams, M. (2019). Approaches to Load Balancing Massively Parallel Transport Sweeps on Unstructured Grids. Proc. International Conference on Mathematics & Computation: Bridging Theory and Application.
- Hanus, M., Harbor, L., Ragusa, J., Adams, M., & Adams, M. P. (2019). Uncollided-Flux Treatment in Arbitrary Polyhedral Grids. Proc. International Conference on Mathematics & Computation: Bridging Theory and Applications.
- Maginot, P. G., Nowak, P. F., & Adams, M. L. (2017). A Review of the Upstream Corner Balance Spatial Discretization. International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and 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.
Reports1
researcher on
Co-Principal Investigator2
- CERT (Center for Exascale Radiation Transport) awarded by DOE-National Nuclear Security Administration 2014 - 2020
awards and honors
recent 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
chaired theses and dissertations
- Vega, Richard Manuel (2019-01). An Extended Slice Balance Approach for Solving the Discrete Ordinates Neutral Particle Transport Equations on the Next Generation of Super-Computers. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Gariazzo, Claudio (2017-12). A Game-Theoretic Model of Mutual Benefits in Bilateral Nuclear Security Regimes. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Merchant, Lance William (2016-12). Neutronics Simulations of Graphite Experiments. (Master's Thesis)
- Lau, Cheuk Yiu (2016-07). Adaptive Discrete-Ordinates Quadratures Based on Discontinuous Finite Elements Over Spherical Quadrilaterals. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Holzaepfel, Aaron J (2016-05). High Fidelity Deterministic Solution of Neutron Transport Problems in Graphite. (Master's Thesis)
Email
mladams@tamu.edu
First Name
Marvin
Last Name
Adams
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Institute For National Security Education; 3473 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3133
USA