Below are theses that I have directed either as committee chair or, in the case of undergraduate honors theses, primary advisor. Some of these are available in PDF form as well. These works are copyright of the respective student, and I want to thank them for allowing me to host them here.
Ph.D. Theses
Daniel A. Holladay, “Studying Effects of Non-Equilibrium Radiative Transfer Via HPC“, 2018.
Jonathan Madsen, “Disjoint Tally Method: A Monte Carlo Scoring Method Using Compressed Sensing to Reduce Statistical Noise and Memory“, 2017.
Weixiong Zheng, “Least-squares and other residual based techniques for radiation transport calculations“, 2016.
Arnulfo Gonzalez, “Approximate Models for Neutral Particle Transport in Ducts with Wall Migration“, 2016.
Vincent Laboure, “Improved Fully-Implicit Filtered PN Method for First and Second Order Forms of the Transport Equation using Galerkin Finite Elements“, 2016.
Alex R. Long, “Physics and Computer Architecture Informed Improvements to the Implicit Monte Carlo Method“, 2016.
Also, my PhD. thesis from 2007: “Spherical Harmonics Methods for Thermal Radiation Transport“.
M.S. Theses
Joseph Fustero, “MCNP6 Code Development for One Dimensional Position Sensitive Thermal Neutron Detectors“, 2017.
Danielle R. Redhouse, “Uncertainty Quantification of a Genetic Algorithm for Neutron Energy Spectrum Adjustment“, 2017.
Pablo Vaquer, “Comparing Contiguous and Discontiguous Energy Grids and Propogating Uncertainties for Radiation Transport Finite Element Methods“, 2016.
James Tompkins, “Experimentally Validated Neutron Flux Simulation for TRIGA Large Irradiation Cell“, 2016.
Lance Merchant, ““Neutronics Simulations of Graphite Experiments“, 2016.
Jacob Landman, ““Variance Reduction Strategies for Implicit Monte Carlo Simulations“, 2016.
Yuriy Ayzman, “Single Pixel Neutron Camera Using Compressive Sensing”, 2016.
Kelli Humbird, “Adjoint-Based Sensitivity Analysis for Flux-Limited Diffusion“, 2016.
Taylor Lane, “Energy Density Gradient Estimation For Monte Carlo Methods In Mix Models“, 2015.
Daniel A. Holladay, “Semi-Analytic Solutions To The Radiative Transfer Equations Via Heterogeneous Computing“, 2014.
Weixiong Zheng, “Physics-Based Uncertainty Quantification For ZrHx Thermal Scattering Law“, 2013.
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Logan Harbour, “Neutron Spectrum Unfolding using the Lasso Regression Method“, 2016.
A. Miguel Holgado, “Radiative Shock Solutions with Multigroup Discrete-Ordinates Transport“, 2014.
Jacob Landman, ““Variance Reduction Techniques for Implicit Monte Carlo Simulations“, 2014.
Taylor K. Lane, “Self-Similar Radiation-Hydrodynamics Solutions in the Equilibrium Diffusion Limit“, 2013.
Daniel A. Holladay, “GPU Acceleration of the ISO-7 Nuclear Reaction Network using OPENCL“, 2012.