Richard Vasques

Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering

[P38] A linear programming-based methodology to determine the minimal neutron source distribution in subcritical systems


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Leonardo R.C. Moraes, Ricardo C. Barros, Richard Vasques
Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science & Engineering, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2023 Aug

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Moraes, L. R. C., Barros, R. C., & Vasques, R. (2023). [P38] A linear programming-based methodology to determine the minimal neutron source distribution in subcritical systems. In Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science & Engineering, Niagara Falls, Canada.


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Moraes, Leonardo R.C., Ricardo C. Barros, and Richard Vasques. “[P38] A Linear Programming-Based Methodology to Determine the Minimal Neutron Source Distribution in Subcritical Systems.” In Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics &Amp; Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science &Amp; Engineering, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2023.


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Moraes, Leonardo R. C., et al. “[P38] A Linear Programming-Based Methodology to Determine the Minimal Neutron Source Distribution in Subcritical Systems.” Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics &Amp; Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science &Amp; Engineering, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2023.


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@inproceedings{leonardo2023a,
  title = {[P38] A linear programming-based methodology to determine the minimal neutron source distribution in subcritical systems},
  year = {2023},
  month = aug,
  journal = {Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics & Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science & Engineering, Niagara Falls, Canada},
  author = {Moraes, Leonardo R.C. and Barros, Ricardo C. and Vasques, Richard},
  month_numeric = {8}
}

ABSTRACT:  In this work, we present a linear programming-based methodology to determine the minimum intensity that a neutron source distribution must have to drive a subcritical system to a prescribed power distribution. The neutron source distribution simulates the neutrons produced by spallation events in an accelerator-driven subcritical core. Numerical results are given to illustrate that the offered methodology applied can be used as the initial step of a supplementary computational tool to be used in the design of subcritical nuclear reactors.