Publications List for John M. McGhee

As of: October, 2002

1. Anderson, Matthew, Adrian Gentle, Arkday Kheyfets, John McGhee, and Warner Miller, "Manifestly Covariant Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics", in preparation for submission to Astrophysical Journal, Oct 2002.

2. Warsa, James S., Todd Wareing, Jim Morel, John McGhee, and Richard Lehoucq, "Krylov Subspace Iterations for Deterministic k-Eigenvalue Calculations", submitted to Nuclear Science and Engineering, Sep, 2002.

3. Nathan D. George, Arkday Kheyfets, John M. McGhee, Warner A. Miller, "Off-Axis Neutrino Scattering in GRB Central Engines" submitted to Astrophysical Journal, Aug 2002.

4. McGhee, John M., "The Dante Boltzmann Transport Solver Project - Technical Manual and Theoretical Background", Los Alamos National Laboratory internal report, Jul 2002.

5. Morel, J. E., and John M. McGhee, "Spatial Discretizations for Self-Adjoint Forms of the Radiative Transfer Equations", submitted to Nuclear Science and Engineering, Jul, 2002.

6. McGhee, John M., and Todd A. Wareing, "Attila Version 2: User's Manual" (LA-UR-00-5778), Mar, 2001. Los Alamos National Laboratory internal report.

7. Wareing, T.A., Jim E. Morel and John M. McGhee, ``Coupled Electron-Photon Transport Methods on 3-D Unstructured Meshes'', Invited paper at ANS Winter Meeting, Washington D.C. 12-16 Nov, 2000, (LA-UR-00-3126).

8. Wareing, Todd A., John M. McGhee, Jim E. Morel and Shawn D. Pautz, ``Discontinuous Finite Element Sn Methods on 3-D Unstructured Grids,'' Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics and Computation, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis in Nuclear Applications, 27-30 September, 1999, Madrid, Spain. Sponsored by the American Nuclear Society, et. al., Vol. 2, page 1185, (LA-UR-99-6340). Also, Nuclear Science and Engineering Vol 138, No. 3, July 2001 pp. 256-268.

9. Wareing, Todd, A., Jim E. Morel and John M. McGhee, ``A Diffusion Synthetic Acceleration Method for the Sn Equations with Discontinuous Finite Element Space and Time Differencing,'' Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics and Computation, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis in Nuclear Applications, 27-30 September, 1999, Madrid, Spain. Sponsored by the American Nuclear Society, et. al., Vol.1, page 45, (LA-UR-99-1224).

10. Morel, J. E., and J. M. McGhee, `` A Self-Adjoint Angular Flux Equation'',Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol 132, No. 3, Jul 1999, pp. 312-325. LA-UR-98-1781.

11. McGhee, J. M., R. M. Roberts, and J. E. Morel, ``The DANTE Boltzmann Transport Solver: An Unstructured Mesh, 3-D, Spherical Harmonics Algorithm Compatible with Parallel Computer Architectures'', Proceedings of the 1997 Joint International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Supercomputing for Nuclear Applications, Saratoga Springs, New York, October 5-10, 1997 p563-572. Sponsored by the American Nuclear Society and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. LA-UR-97-1031.

12. Morel, J. E., J. M. McGhee, and R. M. Roberts, "DANTE: A Three-Dimensional, Unstructured Mesh, Finite Element Transport Code", presented at Organization for Economic Development (OECD), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), Seminar on 3D Deterministic Radiation Transport Computer Programs, Paris, France, 2-3 Dec 1996.

13. Wareing, T. A., J. M. McGhee, and J. E. Morel, " ATTILA: A Three-Dimensional Unstructured Tetrahedral Mesh Discrete-Ordinates Transport Code", presented at the American Nuclear Society Annual Winter Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14 Nov 1996. Trans. Amer. Nucl. Soc. Vol. 75, p. 146 Also presented at Organization for Economic Development (OECD), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), Seminar on 3D Deterministic Radiation Transport Computer Programs, Paris, France, 2-3 Dec 1996

14. Morel, J. E., and J. M. McGhee, "Two New 3D Unstructured Mesh Transport Codes", presented at the 1996 AICHE National Heat Transfer Conference, 3-6 Aug 1996, Houston, Texas.

15. McGhee, J. M.. and J. E. Morel, "NIKE/ATHENA Arbitrary Finite Element Upgrade", LA-UR-96-2124, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM, 13 Jun 96.

16. Morel, J. E., and J. M. McGhee, "A Diffusion-Synthetic Acceleration Technique for the Even-Parity S$_n$ Equations with Anisotropic Scattering", Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol.120, No.3, Jul 1995, pp.147-164. LA-UR-94-1681.

17. Morel, J. E., J. M. McGhee, and W. F. Walters, "3-D Research Codes at Los Alamos", Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics and Computations, Reactor Physics, and Environmental Analysis, Portland Oregon, 30 Apr-4 May 1995.

18. Larsen E. W., J. E. Morel, and J. M. McGhee, " Asymptotic Derivation of the Multigroup P$_1$ and Simplified SP$_n$ Equations with Anisotropic Scatter", Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics and Computations, Reactor Physics, and Environmental Analysis, Portland Oregon, 30 Apr-4 May 1995. Also, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol.123, No.3, Jul 1996, pp.328-342.

19. Morel, J. E., J. M. McGhee, and E. W. Larsen, "A 3-D Time-Dependent Unstructured Tetrahedral Mesh SP$_n$ Method", Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics and Computations, Reactor Physics, and Environmental Analysis, Portland Oregon, 30 Apr-4 May 1995. Also, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol.123, No.3, Jul 1996, pp.319-327.

20. McGhee, J. M.. and J. E. Morel, "NIKE/ATHENA User's Manual", LA-UR-94-4312, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM, 5 Dec 94.

21. McGhee, J. M.. and J. E. Morel, "NIKE/ATHENA Benchmark Calculations", LA-UR-94-3765, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM, 31 Oct 94.

22. Morel, J. E., and J. M. McGhee, "A Forward/Adjoint Transport Formalism for Sensitivity Studies", Proceedings of 6th AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, June 22-23, 1994, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

23. Morel, J. E., and J. M. McGhee, "A Fission-Source Acceleration Technique for Time-Dependent Even-Parity S$_n$ Calculations", Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol.116, No.2, Feb 1994, pp.147-164. LA-UR-92-1288.

24. Larsen, E. W., J. E. Morel, and J. M. McGhee, "Asymptotic Derivation of the Simplified P$_n$ Equations", Proceedings of Joint International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, April 19-23, 1993, Karlsruhe, W. Germany.

25. Buksa, J. , J. Elson, D. Kothe, J. McGhee, J. Morel, R. Perry, and W. Rider, "Fully Coupled Neutronic and Hydrodynamic Analysis of Space Nuclear Reactor Reentry Accidents", Proceedings of the 1993 Simulation MultiConference, March 29-April 1, 1993, Washington, D.C.

26. Morel, J., J. McGhee, and L. Olvey, "Deterministic Three-Dimensional Nuetron Transport Calculations on the Connection Machine", Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, April 9-14, 1992, Copper Mountain, CO.

27. Morel, J. E., J. M. McGhee, L. A. Olvey, and G. W. Claborn, "Solution of the 3-D Even-Parity S$_n$ Equations on the Connection Machine", Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting on Advances in Mathematics, Computation, and Reactor Physics, April 28 - May 2, 1991, Pittsburgh, PA, Vol. 1, p 1.1 2-1.

28. Morel, J., L. Olvey, G. Claborn and J. McGhee, "Diffusion Accelerated Solution of the Even-Parity S$_n$ Equations with Anisotropic Scattering", American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Advances in Mathematics, Computations, and Reactor Physics, April 28 - May 2, 1991, Pittsburgh, PA, Vol.3, p 11.2 3-1.

29. McGhee, J. M. "A Two Dimensional S$_n$ DSA Radiation Transport Package Implemented in a 2D Lagrangian Hydrodynamics Code", Proceedings of 1990 Nuclear Explosives Code Development Conference, Nov 6-9, 1990, Monterey, CA (Classified)

30. El-Genk M., A. Parlos, J. McGhee, S. Lapin, D. Buden, and J. Mims, "Integrated System Design Optimization for Multimegawatt Space Nuclear Power Applications", Journal of Propulsion and Power, Krieger, Melbourne, Fla., Nov-Dec, 1989.

31. McGhee, J., M. El-Genk, and R. Rothrock, "An Assesment of Helium Gas Behavior in SP-100 Class Reactors", Proceedings of the 24th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Washington, D.C., August 6-11, 1989, Vol. 2, p1231-1236, paper 899243. Also available as Report LA-UR-89-1666, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 1989.

32. McGhee, J., Gas Production and Behavior in the Coolant of the SP-100 Space Nuclear Power System, Report No. LA-11629-T, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, August, 1989. (PhD Dissertation, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, May, 1989.)

33. McGhee, J., M. El-Genk, and R. Rothrock, "Coolant Radiologic Gas Production in SP-100 Class Reactors", Transactions of the Sixth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems, Albuquerque, NM, Jan 8-12, 1989, CONF-890103-Summs., p304-308. Also available as Report LA-UR-88-2210, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 1988.

34. McGhee, J., M. El-Genk, and R. Rothrock, "Coolant Radiologic Gas Production in SP-100 Class Reactors", Space Nuclear Power Systems 1989, Orbit, Malabar, Florida, 1989. Also available as Report LA-UR-89-1200, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 1989.

35. Parlos, A., M. El-Genk, J. McGhee, D. Buden, and J. Mims, "Energy Conversion System Optimization Study for Multimegawatt Space Nuclear Power Applications", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 35, No. 3, June, 1988.

36. Parlos, A., M. El-Genk, J. McGhee, D. Buden, and J. Mims, "Energy Conversion System Optimization Study for Multimegawatt Space Nuclear Power Application", Transactions of the Fifth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems, Albuquerque NM, January 11-14, 1988.

37. El-Genk, M.S., A. Parlos, J. McGhee, S. Lapin, D. Buden, and J. Mims "Pellet Bed Reactor Design for Space Power", paper 879360, 22nd Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Philadelphia PA, 10-14 August 1987.

38. Buden, D., M. El-Genk, A. Parlos, J. Mims, J. McGhee, and S. Lapin, "Pellet Bed Reactor Concept", Final Report prepared for U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-86SF16508 by Science Applications International Corporation, Albuquerque NM, and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, March 1987.