High performance deterministic radiation transport methods for SMRs

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The aim of this PhD project is to develop novel numerical algorithms on modern, multi-core and many-core, high performance distributed computing (HPC) architectures for radiation shielding analyses of small modular reactors (SMRs) such as the steam raising nuclear power plants (NPPs) of nuclear submarines or the new Rolls-Royce, civil nuclear, SMR concept. The computational analysis of radiation shielding and dosimetry problems, in general, requires the solution of a complex transport equation that describes the migration of neutral particles through a prescribed host medium such as a radiation shield. This transport equation is central to a wide variety of academically and industrially important areas of engineering and physics including: nuclear reactor physics, reactor shielding, nuclear criticality safety assessment, medical imaging, nuclear security, cloud and solar radiative transfer physics, photon transport in plasmas and nano-scale electronic devices.